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United States of America, ss:
The President of the United States of America,
To the Honorable the Judges of the Circuit Court of the United States, for the District of Columbia holden in and for the County of Washington greeting:
Whereas, lately, in the Circuit Court of the United States, for the District of Columbia before you, or some of you in a cause, wherein Sarah Ann Allen, for herself and children, Eliza Jane, Julia Maria, and John Davy Allen were petitions against Joseph Wallingsford, on petition for freedom, the judgment of said Circuit Court was in the following words, viz; "Therefore, it is considered by the court here, that the said Sarah Ann Allen, Eliza Jane Allen, Julia Maria Allen and John Davy Allen, the petitioners aforesaid, be free and discharged of and from service of the said Joseph Wallingsford and that said petitioners go thereof without day &c. It is further considered by the court here, that the said Sarah Ann Allen, for her self and her children, the petitioners aforesaid, recover against the said Joseph Wallingsford the sum of twenty one dollars and three cents, for their costs, and so forth, and that they have thereof their execution &c"
× And whereas in the present term of January, the death of Joseph Wallingsford the plaintiff in error in the cause having been suggested and the appearance of his administrator having been filed. It was ordered by the court that the said administrator be admitted a party to this suit. Whereupon James Meade administrator of said Joseph Wallingsford appeared in court by his counsel and prosecuted this writ of error.
You, therefore, are hereby commanded that such execution & proceedings be had in said cause, as according to right and justice, and the laws of the United States ought to be had, the said writ of error notwithstanding: Witness the Honorable Joseph Story, Senior Associate Chief Justice of said Supreme Court, the second Monday of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty six.
Wm Thos Carroll
Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Costs.
Clerk, $46:19
Attorney, $ 20:00
$66:19
Taxed by
No. 79. Mandate 1836