Upon the foregoing affidavit it is ordered that a capias issue and the defendant be held to bail in the sum
of Seven hundred Eighty five dollars

St Louis 28th April 1835 Archibald Gamble Clerk

500

4.16 1.38

200 138

198.62

500

8 May 1831

No 34 July Term 1835
St. Louis Circuit Court

Scott & Rule to the use
of their assigners
vs.
Chs . Bent

petition

On note for $ 500 & C.
Issue capias on within

J Spalding
attyFiled 28th April 1835 Archibated Gamble Clerk

The Sheriff of the county of Saint Louis will
require bail of the defendant in the sum of Seven
Hundred and Eighty five dollars

Archibated Gamble Clerk St Louis 28th April 1835

St Louis Circuit Court for July Term 1835

Third Judicial Circuit
County of St. Louis Sct., Alexander Scott & William K. Rule
partners under the name and style of Scott & Rule
plantiffs state that they hold a note on the defendant
Charles Bent in substance as followeth
for 500 dolls.

St. Louis July 7th. 1831

On or before the fifteenth day of November eighteen hun-
dred & thirty three. I p romise to pay to the order of Scott &
Rule five hundred dollars with interest at the rate of ten
per cent per annum from the 8th day of may last till
paid, without defalcation for value recd

Chas. Bent

yet the said debt remains unpaid wherefore the plain
tiffs pray Judgement for their & damage for the de
tention of the same together with costs.

Alexander Scott &
Wm K. Rule
by
J Spalding their atty

Conty of St Louis :

William K. Rule one of the plain
tiffs in the above petition maketh oath & saith that he hath
a real subsisting & unsatisfied cause of action against Charles
Bent the defendant which is the same cause of action set out
in the above petition and amounts to the sum of six hundred
ninety eight dollars sixty two cents and further that the
plaintiff will be in danger of losing his debt unless the defendant
he held to bail: that said Bent is about to leave Missouri for
Mexico a foreign country(where he has been in the habit of dealing
for several years.) without leaving, to the knowledge or belief of the
affiant any property or effects in Missouri or making any provision
to pay recd debt, although payment, has been urged upon him by
this affiant recenty by request of the oweners of the claim

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 28th day
of April 1835 Archibald Gamble Clerk Wm K Rule

500 Dolls
St Louis July 7th 1831

On or before the fifteenth day of November
Eighteen Hundred thirty three I Promise to pay
to the order of Scott & Rule . Five Hundred
dollars (with interest at the rate of ten per cents
per Annum from the 8th day of May last till paid) without defalcation for value recd

Chrls Bent B. R . Due15/18 Nov 1833

Executed this writ by arresting the body of the defendant
Charles Bent who has discharged from my custody
on settling the amount of the Demand with
Josiah Spalding attony for plaintiffs & payng
to him the costs at which time he wasordered
to be discharged By said Spalding May 19th
1835

J . Brotherton Sheriff Server $1.00
paid by Bent

No 34 Saint Louis Circuit Court
July Term 1835

Scott & Rule to use of their assignees
Petition & capias
Charles Bent

upon the affidavit filed in this case it is
ordered that the defendant he held to bail
in the sum of Seven Hundred and Eighty five
dollars the Sheriff of the County of Saint Louis
will therefore require bail of the defendant in
that sum

Archibald Gamble Clerk St Louis 28th April 1835

Discontinued Book 7 page 403

192

St Louis Circuit Court
For July Term 1835Third Judicial Circuit
County of St Louis Sct

Alexander Scott & William K Rule heretofore partners
under the name and style of Scott & Rule Plaintiffs state that they hold a
note on the defendant Charles Bent in Substance as followeth

For 500 Dolls

St Louis July 7th 1831

On or before the fifteenth day of November Eighteen hundred & thirty
three I promise to pay the order of Scott & Rule five hundred dollars with
inteest at the rate of ten per cent per annum from the 8th day of maylast
till paid, without defaleation for value recd

Chas Bent

Yet the said debt remains unpaid wherefore the plaintiffs pray
Judgment for their debt & damages for detention of the same together
with costs

Alexander Scott & Wm K Rule .
by J Sparding their atty

County of Saint Louis ss
The State of missouri

to the Sheriff of the county of Saint Louis Geeting

We cammand you to take Charles Bent of he be found in your
County and him safely keep so that you may have his body before the
Judge of our Circuit court for the County aforesaid on the second day of the
nextJuly term thereof to be held at the City of St Louis within and for the
County of Saint Louis on the fourth Monday of July next then and there
to answer unto the above demand of Alexander Scott and William K Rule
heretofore partners under the name and style of Scott & Rule as set forth in
their petition of which the above is a copy and have you then there this writ

Witness Archibald Gamble Clerk of our
said Circuit Court at office this Twenty
Eighty day of April in the year one thousand
Eighty Hundred and thirty five Archibtd Gamble Clerk