Spring Term A.D. 1889
     Tuesday June 11th 1889 -
of              Dollars and                   cents
his Costs in this behalf expended in this behalf -

Samuel Meinhard Isaac Meinhard    }
Henry Meinhard and E.A. Weil      }
partners doing business under the }  Ashby & Thrasher
firm name of Meinhard Bros & Co   }  & King & King
             vs                   }  Traverse of
Leonidas Sims                     }  affidavit in
                                  }  Attachment
                                  }  Sanchez
                                  }  and now this
cause came on to be heard and the parties Plaintiff
and defendant being in open Court by their respect-
tive attorneys and the issues being joined a Jury
was called and there came R.A. Coulter  S.B. Torlay
R.W. Campbell  W.P. Shettleworth  W.R. Carter
J.E. Haynesworth who were duly sworn and em-
paneled to well and truly try the issues joined
according to the evidence and thereafter after
hearing a part of the evidence

State of Florida }  In Circuit Court 5th Judicial Circuit
Alachua County   }  Alachua County Fla
The petition of Xavier Erbland late of County of Herrette, France, showeth
that on the 26th day of February 1874, at a Court held for The County of
McCracken in the State of Kentucky he made his declaration to be=
come a citizen of The United States, and on the 1st day of August
1887, he received a certificate, under the hand and seal of the
Clerk of said Court, that he had made said declaration which certifi=
cate is hereunto attached & made a part of this petition, And your
petitioner further states that he has resided in the  United States for
the term of five years, next preceeding this his application for admission
to citizenship to wit: from the 5th day of October 1866, until the day of the date
of this application, and your petitioner further showeth that he is
now in the sixty second year of his age that he has borne no title or order
of nobility, wherefore Petitioner prays, this Hon Court, that he may be per-
mitted, to take and subscribe the oath of Allegiance, and Fidelity as
precribed by the Constitution of the United States, and laws passed
in conformity, thereto by Congress and be admitted a citizen of the
same                                 X. Erbland
State of Florida }  In person appeared before the undersigned
Alachua County   }  a County Judge, in and for said County
Robert W. Campbell, and Hans V. Nosky, citizens of The United
States, residing in the County and state aforesaid who being