Fifty pounds reward!!

Province of Canada, Elgin and Kincardine : Victoria, by the grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen ..., to all to whom these presents shall come ..., greeting : a proclamation : whereas about midnight of Thursday the nineteenth day of October now last past, certain barns and stacks of straw and grain, the respective properties of William Bell, Ephraim Taylor, and the Reverend Daniel A. Turner, colored inhabitants of the Township of Biddulph, in the District of Huron, of our Province of Canada, were destroyed by fire : and whereas there is reason to believe that the said fire was not caused by accident, but was the act of an incendiary ... at present unknown : now know ye, that a reward of fifty pounds ... will be paid to any person ... who will give such information as will lead to the apprehension and conviction of the perpetrator or perpetrators of the said crime : in testimony whereof, we have caused these our letters to be made patent ...

by Canada. Governor-General (1847-1854 : El...