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Saint Louis Circuit Court Free Negro Bond for Hanner 1 page Saint Louis, Missouri Saint Louis Circuit Court 1844-12-16

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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="2012-07-18">APJ performed initial transcription and encoding</change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text> <body> <div1 rend="handwritten"> <div2 rend="horizontal"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f15i0164_1.tiff"/> <p>Know all men by these presents that we <lb/> <persName>Pauline Hanner</persName> as principal and <persName>Charles G <lb/> Chesley</persName> as security are held and firmly bound unto <lb/> the State of <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice> as follows the said <persName>Pauline <lb/> Hanner</persName> in the sum of two hundred dollars & <lb/> the said <persName>Charles G. Chesley</persName> in the sum of two <lb/> hundred dollars for the payment thereof <lb/> well & truly to be made we bind ourselves <lb/> our heirs, executors & administrators <lb/> firmly by these presents. Sealed with our <lb/> seals & dated at St Louis this <date when="1844-12-16">sixteenth day <lb/> of December A.D. 1844</date>_ </p> <p>The above obligation is such that whereas <lb/> on the <date when="1844-12-16">sixteenth day of December eighteen <lb/> hundred & forty four</date> the County Court of <lb/> St Louis County hath granted a license to the said <persName>Pauline Hanner</persName> a free negro <lb/> woman to remain in the State of <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice> <lb/> in accordance with an act entitled "An <lb/> act more effectually to prevent free persons <lb/> of color from entering into the State & for other <lb/> purposes" Approved <date when="1843-02-23">Feb 23<hi rend="superscript">d</hi> 1843</date> </p> <p>Now if the above bounden <persName>Pauline Hanner</persName> shall well demean & conduct her- <lb rend="hyphen"/> -self & be of good behaviour during the <lb/> continuance of the said license in the <lb/> State of <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice> then this obligation to be <lb/> void else to remain in full force and <lb/> virtue </p> <closer> <choice> <orig>Witnefs</orig> </choice> <lb/> <signed>AM Gardner</signed> <lb/> <signed>Pauline her x mark Hanner</signed> Seal<lb/> <del rend="strikethrough">Seal</del> <lb/> <signed>C.G Chesley</signed> Seal </closer> </div2> <div2 rend="vertical"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f15i0164_2.tiff"/> <p> <persName>Pauline Hanner</persName> <lb/> free negro </p> <p> Filed <date when="1844-12-16">16 Dec 1844</date> <lb/> <persName>SD Barlow</persName> Clk </p> </div2> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI>