County Of St. LouisSt Louis, Sct.
State of MissouriMissouri,
To any Judge or Justice of the Peace of the
State of IllinoisIllinois
---Greeting.
We, reposing special trust and confidence in your integrity and
circumspection, do require and command
you that you cause to come
before you such person or persons as shall be named to you by RalphRalph
(a man of color) or Coleman DuncanColeman Duncan
their attorney
or agent, and him or them examine upon his,
her or their corporeal oath (to be you administered) touching their
knowledge of any thing that may relate to a certain matter of controversy,
now pending in
our Circuit CourtCircuit Court , for the county of St. LouisSt Louis, wherein
RalphRalph (a man of
color)
is plaintiff and Coleman
DuncanColeman Duncan is defendant on the part of the said
plaintiff and having reduced the said
depositions so taken by you as aforesaid into writing, you are required to
send the same, together with this commission, enclosed under your seal, to
our said CircuitCircuit Court
CourtCircuit Court , with all convenient speed.
at the city of St. LouisSt Louis, this eleventh day of July in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one
Archibald GambleArchibald Gamble
Clerk, C.C.