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Rh  , recovered against your petitioners, as and in their capacities of administrators as aforesaid, the sum of seven thousand five hundred and twenty-five-dollars and ninety-one cents, which were adjudged to them for their damages, with interest on said damages at the rate of six per cent. per annum from said 22d day of October, 1844, till paid, together with the sum of fifty-five dollars and fifty-one cents for costs sustained in said suit, which by the record thereof remaining in said court more fully appears.

"Your petitioners further represent, that afterwards, namely, on the fourth day of March, A.D. 1845, said United States, for having execution of said judgment, sued out of the office of the clerk of said court a certain writ of fieri facias, directed to the marshal of said district, by which said writ said marshal was commanded that of the goods and chattels and slaves, lands and tenements of the said intestate Wharton Rector, at the time of his death, he should cause to be made the damages and interest aforesaid, together with the costs aforesaid, so that he should have the same before the clerk of said court at his office in the city of Little Rock on the first Monday of April next, to be paid over to said plaintiffs; which said writ afterwards came to and is now in the hands of said marshal, who has, by virtue thereof, levied upon and advertised that the following described lands and tenements, situated in Rector town, Pulaski county, in the district aforesaid, namely, lots 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12, in block or square No. 6; fractional block No. 5, consisting of lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6; fractional blocks 12 and 13; blocks No. 8 and 9; fractional blocks 3 and 4, and block No. 16, will be sold on the 29th day of March, 1845, to satisfy said writ of fieri facias; all which by a copy of said writ, with the marshal's certificate thereon, herewith exhibited, marked A., and to be taken as part hereof, will more fully appear.

"And your petitioners submit and insist, that by the law of the land, no writ of execution could issue against them, as such administrators, upon said judgment.

"Your petitioners therefore pray your honors to supersede,