Monday Dec 8th 1856
          
          E.B. Stoddart & Co }  Dawkins & Smith
                    vs       }  Assumpsit
          J.H. McGinnis & Co }  
                            And now on this day came the
          parties by their respective attorney and the
          defendants saying nothing in bar or preclusion
          of the plaintiffs said action hereof against
          them, It is ordered by the Court that the said
          plaintiff do have his judgement by default for want
          of a plea, and that the Clerk do assess the dam
$1808.08  -ages Whereupon the Clerk having assessed the
                 Eighteen hundred & Eight  seventy four  Eight
          damages at^seventeen hundred^dollars and Thirty -
           -- cents It is futher Ordered, considered and
          adjudged by the Court that the said plaintiffs
          do have and recover of and from the said
                                      Eighteen    seventy Eight
          defendants the said sum of seventeen hundred and^
          dollars and Thirty Eight cents together with his
          costs in his behalf Expended taxes at Five
          --- dollars and eighty five cents & the defendant in mercy

          Webster & Palms }     Dawkins & Smith
               vs         }
          W.D. Clark      }
                          And now on this day came the
          parties by their respective attorney and the de-
          -fendant saying nothing in bar or preclusion
          of the plaintiffs said action hereof against
          him, It is Ordered by the Court that the said
          plaintiff do have his judgement by default
          for want of a plea, and that the Clerk do
          assess damages, Whereupon the Clerk having
          assessed the damages at Five Hundred and Fifty two
          dollars and Nineteen fifty four cents It is futher
 $552.54  ordered considered and adjudged by the
          Court that the said plaintiff do have and
          recover of and from the said defendant the
          said sum of Five hundred and fifty two dollars and
          Nineteen fifty four cents together with his costs
          in his behalf depended taxes at Four
          dollars and twenty there cents