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Petitioner was a lazy and dangerous subject & other charges of a like kind, whereupon the officer in command issued a summons for your Petitioner to appear before him and answer the said charges.  The citation for your petitioner was entrusted to Lea who served it by coming to the enclosure of your Petitioner and not finding your Petitioner at home, he threw the paper over the fence, and refused to give to your Petitioner or his Wife any information or explanation as to the nature of the citation, or what the citation required your Petitioner to do.  Your Petitioner thereupon determined to show the citation to some white person of consideration to ascertain what the citation ment and what it required of your Petitioner.

Before your Petitioner had an opportunity of so doing however, Lea, with his son George Lea and his sons in Law Jenkins and Farmer came to your Petitioners cabin about Eleven O'clock on the night of the 15th instant, and after obtaining admittance, with oaths, threats & abuse, pulled your Petitioner out of his bed, tied his hands with a rope and carried your Petitioner to the house of the said Lea, where they kept your Petitioner tied until near day light the next morning, when they marched your Petitioner before their horses to Magnolia, a distance of about nine or ten miles.

Where before the officers of the Bureau of Magnolia Lea in excuse, or defence of his harsh and illegal conduct towards your Petitioner falsely represented that your Petitioner with contempt and oaths had refused to obey the citation from the Bureau; whereas your Petitioner avers the fact to be that had he have