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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
HUMBOLDT COUNTY

And now comes Austin Wiley and deposes as follows:

The statement made by me in the preamble to this indenture
refering to the age of the Indian boy "Smoky" and the manner in
which I obtained him are true to the best of my knowledge and
belief

AUSTIN WILEY

Sworn to and subscribed before me on this 14th day of August A.D.
1860

A. J. HOUSTIS
_County Judge of Humboldt County_.

STATE OF CALIFORNIA, } ss.
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES. }

Before the Hon. Benjamin Hayes,
Judge of the District Court of
the 1st Judicial District, State
of California, County of Los Angeles.[47]

In the matter of Hannah and her children, Ann (and Mary, child of
Ann), Lawrence, Nathaniel, Jane, Charles, Marion, Martha and an
infant boy two weeks old, and of Biddy and her children Ellen,
Ann and Harriet, on petition for Habeas Corpus.

Now on this nineteenth day of January in the year of our Lord,
one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, the said persons above
named are brought before me, in the custody of the Sheriff of
said County, all except the said Hannah and infant boy two weeks
old, (who are satisfactorily shown to be too infirm to be brought
before me,) and except Lawrence (who is necessarily occupied in
waiting on his said Mother, Hannah) and Charles (who is absent in
San Bernardino County, but within the said Judicial District:)
and said Robert Smith, Claimant also appears with his Attorney,
Alonzo Thomas, Esq. And after hearing and duly considering the
said petition for Habeas Corpus and the return of said Claimant
thereto and all the proofs and allegations of the said parties
and all the proceedings previously had herein, it appearing
satisfactorily to the judge here, that all the said persons so
suing in this case, to-wit: Hannah and her said children and
Biddy and her said Children are persons of color, and that
Charles, aged now six years, was born in the Territory of Utah of
the United States, and Marion (aged four years,) Martha (aged two
years) Mary, daughter of the said Ann and aged