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of the said Roxanna shall have free access to her abstaining from everything calculated to make her discontented. And the said Robin and all others are forbidden to use any influence to induce the said Jenny to leave her present abode or to make her discontented but may apply for other and further order respecting her upon affidavit of restraint authority or any other means than kind treatment being used to induce her to remain. And the said Ford and the said Robin shall in ten days and before they shall be entitled to the children awarded to them respectively enter into bond each to the other with sureties to be approved by the Clerk of the District Court aforesaid and filed in his office in the penal sum of one thousand dollars to produce the said children respectively when and where either of the said Courts or any of the Judges shall order and to abide by and perform all the orders and directions above written and such further orders as" may be made prior to the final hearing. And the parties are permitted to take depositions and also to apply for attachments to enforce these orders and all others that may be made.

CYRUS OLNEY, Associate Justice of Oregon.

Dated at Portland June 24th 1853.

Territory of Oregon on the ) Relation of Robin Holmes ) Supreme Court vs. ) HABEAS CORPUS

Nathaniel Ford )

Respondent )

Washington County ss. Nathaniel Ford the respondent in said writ makes the following return thereto to wit, That he has the bodies of the said children described in said writ in his care and possession and under his control to wit, in the County of Polk in said Territory.

That the father and mother of the said children are of the African or negro race and were the slaves of and owned by the Respondent, for many years in the State of Missouri, where the right to hold slaves exists by the laws of that State. That the said Jenn