The State of Missouri
To James Adams and H. R. Jackson, both of StLouis and to the keeper of the County Jail of St. Louis County, Greeting:
You the said James Adams and H. R. Jackson, are hereby required and commanded to take and convey the body of John Jones, a colored man, to the County Jail of St Louis County and there deliver him to the keeper of said Jail, who is hereby required and commanded to receive the said John Jones at said Jail and there safely keep him, until thence discharged by due course of Law.
This warrant of commitment is issued by the undersigned Justice, because the said John Jones was this day brought before the undersigned Justice by the said James Adams and H. R. Jackson, and proven upon their oath, to be a runaway slave.
Given under my hand this 7" day of June 1857.
Rm Herkenrath
Justice of the peace
No 27 May 151
The State
vs
John Jones
Runaway slave
} Warrant of commitment
Rm Herkenrath
Justice
Returned to Sheriff
