indorsement upon the record, allowing the writ
of error from the Supreme Court of the United States:
I allow a writ of error from the Supreme Court of the United
States to the Supreme Court of Illinois, in the suit and
judgment of which the foregoing record is a transcript.
SAM. F. MILLER, _Asso. Jus. Sup. Court U. S._
_August 16, 1870_.
CITATION TO THE STATE OF ILLINOIS TO APPEAR AT WASHINGTON.
_The United States of America to the State of
Illinois_:--The State of Illinois is hereby cited and
admonished to appear and be at the Supreme Court of the
United States to be holden at Washington City in the
District of Columbia, on the first Monday of December next,
pursuant to a writ of error filed in the clerk's office of
the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois, wherein Myra
Bradwell is plaintiff in error, and the State of Illinois is
defendant in error, to show cause, if any there be, why the
judgment in the said writ of error mentioned should not be
corrected, and speedy justice should not be done to the
parties in that behalf.
Witness the Honorable Salmon P. Chase, Chief-Justice of the
Supreme Court of the United States this 16th day of August,
A.D. 1870.
SAM. F. MILLER, _Asso. Jus. Sup. Court U. S._
WRIT OF ERROR.
_United States of America, ss.:_
[SEAL.] The President of the United States, To the Honorable
the Judges of the Supreme Court of the State of
Illinois--Greeting:
Because, in the record and proceedings, as also in the
rendition of the judgment of a plea which is in the said
Supreme Court of the State of Illinois, before you, or some
of you, being the highest court of law or equity of the said
State in which a decision could be had in the said suit in
the matter of the application of Myra Bradwell, of Cook
County, Illinois for a license to practice law in the courts
of said State, wherein was drawn in question the validity of
a treaty or statute of, or an authority exercised under, the
United States, and the decision was against their validity;
or wherein was
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