Mary Lucinda Someby v. Samuel E. Douglass. Order to Show Cause Jennifer Guiliano Trevor Muñoz William G. Thomas III transcription and encoding Steph N. Camerone Kaci L. Nash Laura K. Weakly University of Nebraska-Lincoln University of Maryland National Endowment for the Humanities 2014 O Say Can You See University of Nebraska-Lincoln Center for Digital Research in the Humanities
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 Order to Show Cause January 17, 1856 Our transcription is based on a digital image of the original. National Archives and Records Administration Record Group 21, Entry 6 Box 852, Folder 50 Case Papers Order Civil Petition for Freedom January 1858 Someby, Mary Lucinda Douglass, Samuel E. United States. Circuit Court (District of Columbia) Washington (D.C.) added xml:ids reviewed; edited Encoded and transcribed.

Lucinda Sumby vs Samuel E. Douglass

Petition for freedom Rule to Show Cause &c

The motion for an attachment for contempt having been agreed by Counsel, and considered by the Court, it is now in this seventeenth day of January 1856, ordered That the said defendant Douglass, be & he is ordered to bring into Court on the first day of the next term, the body of the said petitioner Lucinda, and in order that she may be present at her trial & within the Jurisdiction & protection of the Court and have the opportunity of employing the proper means in the prosecution of her suit, and the rule to shew cause why an attachment of contempt should not issue against said Douglas is continued untill the 1st day of the next Term of this Court.

By order of the Court.