Spring Term AD 1898
                               Monday May 23d 1898
         State of Florida }
                vs        } Murder
         Gus Reid         } Motion to set aside verdict and for a new trial
                     And now comes the defendant by his attorneys J.M.
         Rivers and Robt E. Davis and moves the Court to set aside the
         verdict of the Jury herein and to grant him a new trial and now
         said motion being submitted to the Court and argued by both parties
         and the Court being advised in the premises doth decide and order
         that said motion be overruled to which ruling and order of the
         Court the defendant by his Attorneys excepts.
         It is further ordered by the Court that the defendant be allowed
         sixty days to prepare and settle bill of exceptions

         State of Florida }
Sentence        vs        } Sentence
         Gus Reid         }
                           And now the prisoner Gus Reid being in Open Court
         for sentence was demanded if he had anything to say why the sentence
                                            him
         of the law should not be passed upon^saith nothing, whereupon
         the Court sentenced the prisoner in Manner and form as follows
         to wit: The sentence of the law is that you Gus Reid be impris-
         oned by confinement in the State Prison at hard labor for twenty
         years.
         State of Florida }
Sentence         vs       } Sentence
         George Howard    }
                     And now the prisoner George Howard being in 
         Open Court for sentence was demanded if he had anything to
         say why the sentence of the law should not be passed upon him
         saith nothing, whereupon the Court sentenced the prisoner in
         manner and form as follows, to wit:
           The Sentence of the law is that you George Howard be impris-
         oned in the County Jail at hard labor for twelve months
                In the matter of the Petition of J.D. Matheson Chairman
         of the Board of County Commissioners of Alachua Co. Fla for ap-
         pointment of a jury of twelve men to assess damages for opening a
         road thro lands of Mrs Alice Richbourg, A.C. Steenburg and others.
                  The Petition of J.D. Matheson in the above styled and 
         described cause coming on to be heard this day, it is ordered that
         O.P. Cannon C.w. McDonald J.S. Crown Sr D.W.L. Barton
         J.H. Crown Wm Watts Sr J.S. Crown Jr F.C. Crown Jere Gregg
         Wash West, Harrison Lynch and J.B. Mixson be and are hereby
         appointed a jury of twelve men who are residents in the vicinity of