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District of Columbia, to wit:
The United States of America,
To the Marshal of the District of Columbia, greeting:
You are hereby commanded to summon Augustus Preuss if he shall be found in the county of Washington, that (all excuses set aside) he be and appear before the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, to be held for the county of Washington, in the city of Washington, on the First Monday of May next, to testify on the part of answer the petition for freedom of Janette Lee filed in court against him
Hereof fail not at your peril; and have you then and there this precept.
Witness Wm Cranch Esquire, chief Judge of the said Court.
Issued the 9th day of March 1827
W. Brent, Clk
Beale
I authorize
T Ringgold
Marshal
110
Janette Lee
vs
Augustus Preuss
Subpa
2 Bre
Sumd
T Ringgold
Marshal