Agreement, 2 October 1844, Copy [State of Illinois v. Williams et al.]
Source Note
A. S. Bledsoe, Thompson Campbell, , and , Agreement, , Adams Co., IL, 2 Oct. 1844, State of IL v. Williams et al. (Adams Co., IL, Circuit Court 1844). Copied after 2 Oct. 1844; unidentified handwriting; one page; Collection of Manuscripts about Mormons, 1832–1954, Chicago History Museum, ICHi-183515. Includes docket and archival marking.
The undersigned Council respectively for the People of the State of , and & , admit and agree that in appearing & entering into to appear to answer to any charge preferred against them, they do not make or intend to make any admission of probable cause to bind them over; but that it is done to save time, delay in consequence of the absence of witnesses, and for this reason only; and the said & in entering into said recognizance, do so under a protestation of their entire innocence of the offence with which they are charged; and they who allege that they are now ready & willing to go into an investigation of the charge before a court of enquiry, under the stipulations entered into with them at the time of their surrender, & have no desire to shun or evade it, but enter into said recognizance for no purpose whatever, than that above expressed—