County of St Louis SS
The State of Missouri
to Rolla Rose Greeting
You are hereby commanded to have the bodies of Hannah and Sarah otherwise called Sade free girls of colour detained in your custody as it is said together with the day and cause of their caption and detainer, before and Circuit Court now in Session at the city of St Louis within and for the County of St Louis immediately after the receipt of this writ, then and there to do and receive what our said court in this behalf shall consider and have you then there this writ
Witness Archibald Gamble Clerk of our said court this 23rd day of April 1825
Archibald Gamble Clk
The above named Rolla Rose appears here in open
court and for return to the above writ says that he
had did not before or at the time of the [?]
out[?] the
said writ nor at any time since detain in
his custody the said Hannah and Sarah or either of
them, nor doth he now detain them in either of
them, in his custody or power
Sworn to & subscribed in open Court May 9th 1825
Rolla Rose
A Gamble Clerk
To Rolla Rose
Habeas Corpus
