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give bond and security payable to said Speer in the sum of two hundred dollars conditioned that if the said Thomas Knight (Plaintiff) should fail prosecute his attachment suit to effect or in case he failed therein will pay the said Speer (Defendant) all such costs and damages as he Speer might sustain by the wrongful a vexacious seeing out of such attachment then said bond to become void, (which you will see is all in complyance with the law) I thereupon issued an attachment in favour of the said Thomas against the estate of the said Speer and delivered it over to the Constable who levied the attachment upon one bale of Cotton, after the Cotton had been attached Speer as I believe throught mallis and revenge went before one Wainsnack & McNeeley Justices of the Peace a swore that said Tom had maliciously sued out an attachment against him and thereby committed perjury to the great damage of the said Speer and against the peace and dignity of the state of Alabama (these are the words used in [[crossed-out]] the [[/crossed-out]] Speers complaint), the said Justice thereupon issued a warrant against the said Tom for the crime of perjury and had him arrested Tom through [[crossed out]] t [[/crossed out]]