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THE STATE OF ALABAMA,
Shelby COUNTY.
IN CIRCUIT COURT
Fall TERM 1857

The Grand Jury of said County charge that before the finding of this Indictment
Elizabeth Carden sold to or bought or
received from a slave named Charley the
property of Horace Mear certain articles of
Castings without the consent of the master
owner or overseer of such slave
verbally or in writing expressing the articles
permitted to be sold to or bought or recieved from such
slave first obtained

against the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama.
L V B Martin
Solicitor of the 3d Judicial Circuit of Alabama.