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Springfield Ills Feb. 16 - 1842
G.B. Shelody Esqr
Yours of the 10th is duly received. Judge Logan & myself are doing business together now and we are willing to attend to your cases as you propose. As to the terms, we are willing to attend each case you prepare and send us for $10 (where there shall be no apportion) to be sent in advance, or you to know that that it is safe. It takes $5.75 of cost upon, that is, $1.75 to clerk, and $2 to each of two publishers of papers. Judge Logan thinks it will take the ballance of $20 to carry a case through. This must be advanced from time to time as the services are performed as the officers will not act without. I do not know whether you can be admitted an attorney of the Federal Court in your absence or not; nor is it material, as the business can be done in our names.
Thinking it may aid you a little, I send you one of our blank forms of Petitions. It, you will see, is framed to be sworn to before the Federal Court Clerk, and in your cases will have be so far changed, as to be sworn to before the clerk of your circuit court and by his certificate must be accompanied by his officers seal. The schedules too, must be attended to. Be sure that they contain the creditors names, their residences, the amounts due each, the debtors
names, their residences, and the amount they owe, also all property and where located.
Also be sure that the schedules are signed by the applicants as well as the Petition.
Publication will have to be made here in one paper, and in one nearest the residences of the applicant. Write us in each case where this last advertisement is to be sent - whether to you or to what paper.
I believe I believe I have now sent everything that can be of any advantage.
Your friend as ever
A. Lincoln
G. B. Shelody Esqr
Paris
Edgar Co.
Illinois
A. Lincoln
Autograph of Andrew Johnson