Summons, 5 December 1850 [United States v. Joseph Smith III et al.]
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, Summons, to U.S. Marshal of the District of [Benjamin Bond], for John J. Brent, Thomas Wilson, George Greer, Frederick R. Prentice, , John Smith, , E. Morrill, Leonard T. Ferris, Hickison Wright, A. W. Williams, James Ward, J. Moyall, W. Ward, James McIlvaine, Matthew McClaughry, J. Richardson, Amos W. Condit, W. W. Noyse, Fitzgerald Woolley, E. W. Turner, and J. R. Welch, , Sangamon Co., IL, 5 Dec. 1850, U.S. v. Joseph Smith III et al. (United States Circuit Court for the District of IL 1852). Copied [ca. 17 July 1852] in Transcript of Proceedings, U.S. District Court for the District of Illinois, Complete Records, 1837–1856, vol. 4, pp. 622–623; handwriting of ; Records of District Courts of the United States, Record Group 21, National Archives at Chicago, Chicago. Includes seal.
W. W. Noyse, F[itzgerald] Woolley, E. W. Turner, and J. R. Welch if they be found in your district to be and appear before, our Judges of our Circuit Court of the United States for the District of at the rule day thereof at in the District aforesaid on the first Monday in the month of February next to answer unto the in a Bill and supplemental filed in the clerks office of said Court,
And have you then there this writ.
L.S.
Witness the Hon. Roger B. Taney chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States of America at in the District aforesaid this 5th. day of December A. D. 1850 and of our Independence the 75th. year.
Clerk
The defendants are hereby notified that unless they and each of them be and appear as within Commanded the Complainants’ bill will be taken against them as confessed and decree entered accordingly.
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