1296
AMERICAN msTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
Creditors, together with a Schedule of his debts, in the words and figures following, to wit: To the Honorable William Murray Judge of the sixth District Court., Parish of Rapide The petition of Imla Keep a citizen of said Parish, with respect states to your Honor That notwithstanding he has used the greatest industry and most rigid economy for years past he finds himself in consequence of his numerous losses and misfortunes in a Condition that renders it absolutely impossible for him to discharge his debts-Your petitioner further states: that the step he is about to take in making a surrender to his creditors has alone been pro- duced by the positive belief that whilst encumbered anc1 shakled with such a load of increasing debt in consequence of the Rapide growth of ·the amount by accumulating interest and Costs, that he never could by any rational exertion meet the payment his losses and the payments heretofore made having divested him of every useful means of making, save his personal exertions-Your ·peti-' tioner further states that he has been placed in his present un- pleasant situation of inability to pay his creditors, by misfortunes that he could not control and meeting necessary expences-such as· that of having lost his most valuable slaves, after having given a large price at an unfortunate period for a plantation to employ them on, That of having given fourteen thousand dollars for a planta- tion-which was sacrifised for less than a third of the amt· at Sheriffs sale. -That of supporting my family, though not an ex- pensive one-Yet a losing one-That of ·not being able .to collect my debts and incurring their loss,-that of having at great expense to attend to an expensive law suit most unjustly Prosecuted against me in the state of Mississippi These together with many other causes not enumerated_have produced my inability to 1Jay my debts and force me to take that disagreeable step of calling a meeting of my creditors-To which end I ha, 7 e hereto annexed a schedule of my property and a list of my active and passive debts, as also a Statement of the debts, clue by me, and a Statement of the losses that I have sustained--Wherefore your petitioner prays to be allowd to call a meeting of ·his creditors at such time and 'place as your Honor or the court may direct, in order that he may be enabled to lay before them a statement of his _affairs and surrender them his Estnte, nnd that. in the mean time all Kind of proceedings aaainst his Person and property be stayecl- 0 (Signed) • lMLA KEEP
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