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please", the Magistrate said, I fine you Fifty dollars, and looking at the Sheriff (who stood in the doorway and in full view of everybody in the room) said Mr. Sheriff Arrest Mr. Sayers, Mr. Sayers then said " I defy the Sheriff or any other damn man to take me", all of which orders the Sheriff failed to make the first movement towards carrying out. At this time the confusion was so great that the Magistrate took his books and left the room. 

When the fine of ten dollars was imposed, the Sheriff was not in the room. When the second fine of Fifty dollars was imposed the Sheriff stood in the doorway in a position to overlook the whole room.

This can be proved by numerous witnesses

(Signed) C V Schafer
Mayor of Bastrop,
Bastrop Co. Texas.

Subscribed and sworn to before me this the eighth day of June 1868.
(Signed) Wm. H. Horton
Sub Asst. Com. B.R. &c

A true Copy
Charles A. Vernou
2 Lt. 4 Cav.
A.A.A.G. B.R &c

Transcription Notes:
[underlined] removed Charles A. Vernou (not Vernon)