We command you that if AugustusAugust Chouteau ChouteauAugust Chouteau
JohnJohn P Cabanne P. CabanneJohn P Cabanne & Antoine Chenin merchants doing
business under the name style and form of Chouteau, Cabanne & Company shall make you secure you cause
to be replevied and delivered to the said Chouteau, Cabanne
& company two packs of beaver skins with the fur on them &
one small pack of the same all of the value of five hundred
Dollars the property of them the said Chouteau, Cabanne &
company as they say which said property is detained
by PierrePierre commonly called Pierriche Lecompte if he may be
found within your bailiwick that he and appear before
the Judges of our court of commons pleas to be holden at the
town of St. LouisSt Louis within & for the county of St LouisSt Louis on the
fourth monday in June next then and there to answer unto
Chouteau CabanneChouteau Cabanne and Chenin doing business under the
name style and firm of Chouteau CabanneChouteau Cabanne & company
of a plea wherefore the said PierrePierre commonly called Pierreche Lecompte took two packs of of beaver skinswith the fur on them and one one small pack of the same all of the value of five
hundred Dollars the property of the said Chouteau CabanneChouteau Cabanne
& company and the said property detains against sureties
& pledges to the damage of the said Chouteau CabanneChouteau Cabanne
& company of five hundred and have you then there this writ