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                    <p>Know all men by these presents that<lb/>
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                    sum of Four Hundred Dollars each to be paid<lb/>
                        to the said State of <choice>
                     <orig>Mifsouri</orig>
                     
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                    and truly to be made we do firmly bind ourselves our heirs, executors and administrators and every of them by<lb/>
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                    Anno Domini eighteen hundred and forty three</date>
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                    <p>The condition of this obligation is such that whereas the County Court of the County of<lb/>
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                        a free colored man a license to reside within the <lb/>
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                        citizen of said State then this obligation to be void + of no <lb/>
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                        Filed <date when="1843-05-03">May 3. 1843</date>
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