The above petitioners are allowed to institute a suit on the foregoing petition to establish their right to freedom & the clerk of the Circuit Court for S Louis county is hereby demanded to issue a writ according to the statute on such case made & provided. It is also ordered that the said petitioners be not subject to any severity on account of their application for freedom, that they have reasonable liberty of attending their counsel & the court whenever occasion may require and that they be not removed out of the jurisdiction of the court.
Given under my hand as Judge of the third Judicial Circuit State of Missouri at Chambers this 23 May 1832.
Will: C Carr