O Say Can You See

Whereas lately in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Columbia in the County of Alexandria before you or some of you, in a cause wherein Negro Loudon was Plaintiff and Charles Scott was Defendant, in a plea of Trespass &c, the said Negro Loudon by Judgment of said Circuit Court recovered against the said Charles Scott one cent damages by reason of the premises, as by the inspection of the Record & proceedings of the said Circuit Court which were brought into the Supreme Court of the United States by virtue of a writ of error according to the Act of Congress in such cases made & provided fully & at large appears; and whereas in the Term of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and six the said cause came on to be heard before the said Supreme Court of the United States, and was argued by Counsel, on consideration whereof It was adjudged ordered & Decreed by the said Supreme Court, that the said Judgment of the said Circuit Court should be and the same was thereby reversed & annulled with costs; and it was further adjudged ordered & Decreed by the said Supreme Court that the said cause should be remanded to the said Circuit Court for   further proceedings; And Thereupon the said Supreme Court being willing that full and speedy Justice should be done to the parties, You therefore are hereby commanded that such further & other proceedings should be had in the premises, as according to right and Justice and the laws of the United States and agreeably to the Judgment order & Decree of the said Supreme Court aught to be had, the said writ of error notwithstanding; Witness the Honorable John Marshall Chief Justice this first Monday of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seven.

EB Caldwell Clk. Sup Ct. U.S.