THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA, To J.H. Boyer & A. Morgan Gentlemen Justices of the County of Hinds and State of Mississippi Greeting: KNOW YE, that we, trusting to your fidelity and provident circumspection in diligently examining James Ware, Witness, as well on behalf of John Rosser Plaintiff, as German Jordan, Defendant, in a suit now depending in the Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery, holden for the county of Campbell, command you, or any two or more of you, that at such certain day and place as you shall appoint, you assemble yourselves and the witness aforesaid before you, you call and cause to come, and diligently examine him on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, and their examinations into our said Court, distinctly and plainly, without delay, you send and certify enclosed. And have then there this writ. Witness, JOHN D ALEXANDER, Clerk of our said Court, this 1st day of December 1841 in the 66th year of the Commonwealth. Jno. D. Alexander