To the of said . . . Greeting:— We command you that you take the bodies of , Joseph Smith Jr. and , if they be found in your , and them safely keep, so that you have them before our Court of Common Pleas for said at the Court House in on the fifth day of June next, to answer unto in a plea of assumpsit to his damage four hundred dollars, as is said. Herein fail not but of this writ and your service make due return. Witness the Hon. President Judge of said Court at , this 20th. day of April AD 1837.

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Suit brought to recover amount of a note of hand given by defts as partners under the name of , for the sum of $287³²/₁₀₀ dated June 17. 1836 payable to or order six months after date, value received: Amount claimed to be due $295.00.—

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The State of Ohio, ss.} I on the 25.th. day of April 1837 arrested the within named defts and took their bail bond with , , & as sureties conditioned that , Joseph Smith Jun. & appear at the next Court of Com. Pleas and enter Special bail in the case— a copy of bail bond is hereunto returned. 2d. Shff. [p. 351]