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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="2012-07-12">APJ performed initial transcription and encoding</change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text> <body> <div1 rend="handwritten"> <div2 rend="horizontal"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f14i0084_1.tiff"/> <p>Know all men by these presents that we <lb/> <persName>Clemson Meachum</persName> as principal and <persName>Berry <lb/> Meachum</persName> as security are held & firmly <lb/> bound unto the State of <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice> in the <lb/> sum of four hundred dollars that is to <lb/> say the said <persName>Clemson Meachum</persName> in <lb/> the sum of two hundred dollars and the <lb/> said <persName>Berry Meachum</persName> in the sum of <lb/> two hundred dollars to the payment <lb/> whereof we hereto bind ourselves. </p> <p>The condition of the above obligation <lb/> is such that whereas the said <persName>Clemson</persName> <lb/> has this day been licensed by the County <lb/> Court of S Louis County to remain in the <lb/> State of <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice> as provided by Law <lb/> Now if the said Clemson shall be of <lb/> good behavior then this obligation to be <lb/> void else to remain in full force </p> <closer> Given under our hands and <lb/> seals at S Louis this <date when="1843-05-04">4<hi rend="superscript">th</hi> day of May <lb/> 1843</date> <lb/> Test<lb/> <signed>Louis DuBraid</signed> <lb/> <signed>Climson Meachum</signed> Seal <lb/> <signed>J.B. Meachum</signed> Seal </closer> </div2> <div2 rend="vertical"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f14i0084_2.tiff"/> <p> <persName>Clemson Meachum</persName> <lb/> Bond <lb/> To State of <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice> </p> <p> <date when="1843-05-04">May 4, 1843</date>. </p> </div2> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI>