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 United States of America,ss.

The President of the United States, to the Judge of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Illinois, Greeting:

Because in the record and proceedings, and also in the rendition of the judgement of a plea which is in the said court, before you, between The United States and Daniel Benton alias William Newby, a manifest error hath happened, to the great damage of said Daniel Benton alias William Newby as by his complaint appears. We being willing that the error, if any hath been, should be duly corrected, and full and speedy justice done to the parties aforesaid in this behalf, do command you, if judgement be therein given, that then under your seal, distinctly and openly, you send the record and proceedings aforesaid, with all things concerning the same, to the Supreme Court of the United States, together with this writ, so that you may have the same at Washington on the 5th day of May next, in the said Supreme Court to be then and there held, that the record and proceedings aforesaid being inspected, the said Supreme Court may cause further to be done therein, to correct that error, what of right, and according to the laws and customs of the United States, should be done.

Witness the Honorable Melville W. Fuller Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, the 6th day of April in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety four and of our Independence the one hundred and eighteenth year.

James T. Jones [signed] Clerk of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Illinois.