You are summoned that all excuses and delays being set aside you and each of you personally be and appear before the judges of the superior court
of our territory aforesaid at our said superior court sitting as a court of Chancery to be held in and for the northern circuit at the town of St. LouisSt Louis
on the twenty ninth day of August next being the sixth day
of the term of our said court, to testify and the truth to tell in a certain case
then and there to be tried, and wherein Samuel B SmithSamuel B Smith is complainant and FernonFernon and Connelly are defendants on the part of the said Complainant and from day to day until duly discharged by the court, and not depart the
said court without the leave thereof-and of this fail not at your peril and our sheriff of our coun-
ty of St. louis is hereby commanded, then and there to make return of this our writ
and certify to our said court how he executes the same.