r Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four
(the fifteenth day of said October being Sunday).

The Jurors of the United States within the aforesaid
District, on their oath, present.

1st. That heretofore to wit,--on the twenty-fourth day of
May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
fifty-four, a certain warrant and legal process directed to
the Marshal of the said District of Massachusetts, or either
of his Deputies, was duly issued under the hand and seal of
Edward G. Loring, Esquire, who was then and there a
Commissioner of the Circuit Court of the United States, for
said District, which said warrant and legal process was duly
delivered to Watson Freeman, Esquire, who was then and there
an officer of the United States, to wit, Marshal of the
United States, for the said District of Massachusetts, at
Boston, in the District aforesaid, on the said twenty-fourth
day of May in the year aforesaid, and was of the purport and
effect following, that is to say:--

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

MASSACHUSETTS DISTRICT, SS.

To the Marshal of our District of Massachusetts, or either
of his Deputies, _Greeting_:

In the name of the President of the United States of
America, you are hereby commanded forthwith to apprehend
Anthony Burns, a negro man, alleged now to be in your
District, charged with being a fugitive from labor, and with
having escaped from service in the State of Virginia, if he
may be found in your precincts, and have him forthwith
before me, Edward G. Loring, one of the Commissioners of the
Circuit Court of the United States for the said District,
then and there to answer to the complaint of Charles F.
Suttle, of Alexandria, in the said State of Virginia,
Merchant, alleging under oath that the said Anthony Burns on
the twenty-fourth day of March last, did and for a long time
prior thereto had, owed service and labor to him the said
Suttle, in the said State of Virginia, under the laws
thereof, and that, while held to service there by said
Suttle, the said Burns escaped from the said State of
Virginia, into the State of Massachusetts; and that the said
Burns still owes service and labor to said Suttle in the
said State of Virginia, and praying that said Burns may be
restored to him said