RECORD OF THE VIRGINIA COURT (May, 1854)
"IN ALEXANDRIA CIRCUIT COURT, May 16,1854. On the application of Charles F. Suttle, who this day appeared in Court and made satisfactory proof to the Court that Anthony Burns was held to service and labor by him, the said Suttle, in the State of Virginia, and service and labor are due to him, said Suttle, from the said Anthony, and that the said Anthony has escaped from the State aforesaid, and that the said service and labor are due him, the said Suttle, the master of the said Anthony; and having further proved to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Anthony is a man of dark complexion, about six feet high, with a scar on one of his cheeks, and also a scar on the back of his right hand, and about twenty-three or four years of age,--it is therefore ordered, in pursuance of an act of Congress, entitled 'An Act to amend and supplementary to the Act entitled "An Act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from their masters,"' approved Feb. 12, 1793, that the matter so prayed and set forth be entered on the record of this Court."
State of Virginia, County of Alexandria, ss.
"I, Franklin L. Burkett, Clerk of the Circuit Court of Alexandria County, in the State aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a true transcript from the records of said Court.
"In testimony whereof, I hereto subscribe my name, and annex the seal of said Court, this, 13th day of May, 1854, and in the 78th year of the Commonwealth.
[L. S.] F. L. BURKETT, Clerk of Alexandria C. C."
"State of Virginia, County of Alexandria, ss.
"I, John W. Tyler, presiding Judge of the Circuit Court of Alexandria county, in the State of Virginia, do certify that Franklin L. Burkett, whose name is affixed to the preceding certificate as clerk of the said Court, is clerk thereof, and his said attestation is in due form.
"Given under my hand this 18th day of May, 1854.
"JOHN W. TYLER."