Territory of Washington}
County of Pierce} SS
To the Sheriff of Pierce County Greeting:
In the name of the United States of America you hereby commanded "as you have heretofore been commanded" to take the body of James Riley if to be found in your County" and him safely keep so that you have him before the District Court for Pierce County, W.T. at a term thereof to be begun and holden at Steilacoom in said County on the 24th day of February A.D. 1864 (the same being the Fourth Monday in said month then and there to answer on and Indictment pending against him for assault and Battery.
Herein Fail not and have you then and there this writ with your doings endorsed thereon
Witness the Hon C.C. Hewitt Chief Justice of Washington Territory and Judge of the District Court for Pierce County W.T. this 1st day of October A.D. 1863
John Latham Clerk
