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976 F.2d 727
NOTICE: Fourth Circuit I.O.P. 36.6 states that citation of unpublished dispositions is disfavored except for establishing res judicata, estoppel, or the law of the case and requires service of copies of cited unpublished dispositions of the Fourth Circuit.Joe Leonard PRICE, Plaintiff-Appellant,v.Gary DIXON;  Lieutenant Walker;  D. W. Vann, Sergeant,Defendants-Appellees.
No. 92-6660.
United States Court of Appeals,Fourth Circuit.
Submitted:  August 31, 1992Decided:  September 23, 1992

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, at Raleigh.  Terrence W. Boyle, District Judge.  (CA-92-233)
Joe Leonard Price, Appellant Pro Se.
E.D.N.C.
DISMISSED.
Before SPROUSE and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges, and BUTZNER, Senior Circuit Judge.
PER CURIAM:

OPINION

1
Joe Leonard Price appeals from a magistrate judge's order which instructed him to file his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1988) complaint with his original signature.  We dismiss the appeal for lack of jurisdiction because the order is not appealable.  This Court may exercise jurisdiction only over final orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1291 (1988), and certain interlocutory and collateral orders, 28 U.S.C. § 1292 (1988);  Fed.  R. Civ. P. 54(b);   Cohen v. Beneficial Industrial Loan Corp., 337 U.S. 541 (1949).  The order here appealed is neither a final order nor an appealable interlocutory or collateral order.

2
We dismiss the appeal as interlocutory.  We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the Court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

DISMISSED