Your petitioner respectfully represents that One William Frame a prisoner in his custody in the jail of Schuyler County on charge for murder broke jail on 23^rd Jan.[January] 1839, for the apprehension of whom your petioner on 24^th of the same month offered a reward of $50. And that said prisoner was on 25^th Jan. 1839 apprehended by some gentlemen of Brown Co. Ill. and brought back to your petioner, and that your petioner paid the persons apprehending said prioner the above named reward, which may be seen by refference to their receipt, Wherefore your petioner prays for an appropriation to be made to him refunding him said amount. And as in duty your petioner will ever pray