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Saint Louis Circuit Court Free Negro Bond for Robinson 1 page Saint Louis, Missouri Saint Louis Circuit Court 1843-07-01

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</bibl> </taxonomy> </classDecl> </encodingDesc> <profileDesc> <langUsage> <language ident="eng">English</language> </langUsage> <textClass> <keywords scheme="local"> <list> <item n="Topical"/> <item n="Topical"/> </list> </keywords> </textClass> </profileDesc> <revisionDesc> <change when="2012-07-17">APJ performed initial transcription and encoding</change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text> <body> <div1 rend="handwritten"> <div2 rend="horizontal"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f14i0130_1.tiff"/> <p>Know all men by these presents that we <persName>David <lb/> Robinson</persName> as principal and <persName>Orrin Smith</persName> as <lb/> security are held and firmly bound unto the <lb/> State of Missouri <add place="above">each</add> in the just and full sum of <lb/> Two hundred dollars for the true payment of which <lb/> sum of money we bind ourselves our executors <lb/> administrators and assigns jointly and <lb/> severally by these presents sealed with our seals <lb/> and dated this <date when="1843-07-01">first day of July in the year <lb/> of our Lord eighteen hundred and forty three</date> </p> <p>The condition of this obligation is such that <lb/> whereas said <persName>David Robinson</persName> has this day <lb/> obtained from the County Court of the County <lb/> of St Louis a license to remain in the <lb/> State of Missouri as a free person of color under <lb/> the provisions of an act entitled "An act more <lb/> effectually to prevent free persons of color from <lb/> entering into the state and other purposes" <lb/> </p> <p>Now the condition of this Bond is such <lb/> that if the said <persName>David Robinson</persName> shall <lb/> be of good behaviour during the continuance of <lb/> said license, then the above obligation to be <lb/> null and void Otherwise to be and remain <lb/> in full force and virtue in law </p> <closer> Attest<lb/> <signed>Andrew HH Dawson</signed> <lb/> <signed>David Robinson</signed> Seal<lb/> <signed>Orrin Smith</signed> Seal </closer> </div2> <div2 rend="vertical"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f14i0130_2.tiff"/> <p> <persName>David Robinson</persName> <lb/> To Bond <lb/> The State of <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice> </p> <p> Filed <date when="1843-07-01">July 1<hi rend="superscript">st</hi> 1843</date> </p> </div2> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI>