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[[preprinted text]] THE STATE OF ALABAMA Lawrence County, SS. TO ANY SHERIFF OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA -- GREETING: YOU are hereby commanded to take the bod[[/preprinted text]] y [[preprinted text]] of [[/preprinted text]] Elijah Stover [[preprinted text]] wherever [[/preprinted text]] he [[preprinted text]] may be found in your county, and [[/preprinted text]] him [[preprinted text]] safely keep, so that you have [[/preprinted text]] his [[preprinted text]] before the Judge of our next [[/preprinted text]] Circuit [[preprinted text]] Court to be holden for said county at the Courthouse in the town of Moulton on the [[/preprinted text]] third [[preprinted text]] Monday in [[/preprinted text]] March 1845 [[preprinted text]] to answer [[/preprinted text]] John C Reese of a plea of Trespass on the Case, to his Damage One thousand Dollars [[preprinted text]] Herein fail not, and have you this writ at the office of the Clerk of said court three days previous to the [[/preprinted text]] Third [[preprinted text]] Monday in [[/preprinted text]] March 1845 [[preprinted text]] Witness, [[/preprinted text]] John McBride [[preprinted text]] Clerk of said Court, at office the [[/preprinted text]] fifth [[preprinted text]] day of [[/preprinted text]] March [[preprinted text]] 184[[/preprinted text]] 5 [[preprinted text]] and of the Independence of the United States of America, the [[/preprinted text]] 69th year [[preprinted text]] Issued the [[/preprinted text]] 5th [[preprinted text]] day of [[/preprinted text]] March [[preprinted text]] 184[[/preprinted text]] 5 [[preprinted text]] TESTE, [[/preprinted text]] [[signature]] John McBride [[preprinted text]] CLERK. [[/preprinted text]]