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State of Maryland {So?}

At a General court for the Western Shore of the State aforesaid begun {court?} held at the City of Annapolis on the second Tuesday of May being the thirteenth day of the same month Anno Domini seventeen hundred and ninety four and in the eighteenth year of the Independence of America

Present

The honorable	Samuel Chase Esquire Chief Judge
Robert Goldsborough &	Esquires {Prisne?} Judges
Jeremiah Townley Chase	Esquires {Prisne?} Judges

In the record of proceedings of the same Court among others is the following suit:

Elisha Lackland
against
{Lakin?} Dorsey

Be it remembered that heretofore {told?} on the seventeenth day of October seventeen hundred and ninety {two?} the Defendant by William Owings his Attorney sued out {at?} our General Court the State of Maryland's court of Habeas Corpus directed to the Chief Justice, Associate Justices and Sheriff of Washington County in the words, & figures following, to wit: - The State of Maryland {So?} To the Chief Justice, Associate Justices and Sheriff of Washington County, Greeting: Whereas a certain {Lakin?} Dorsey late of Washington County is detained in the prison of our Said County under the Custody of you, our said Sheriff, at the suit of a certain Elisha Lackland of a plea of Trespass upon the Case and so forth, which said plea, as it is said still depends before you, our said Justices, undetermined; and we being willing, for divers causes, that the plea aforesaid, undetermined as aforesaid, should be heard and determined before the Judges of our Genera Court; therefore we command you that you have the body of the said {Lakin?} Dorsey by whatsoever name or names he may be called in the plea aforesaid, together with the cause of his {caption?} and detention, and all things thereunto relating, before the Judges of our General Court, to be held at the City of Annapolis the second Tuesday of May next, that the of our said General