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Saint Louis Circuit Court Free Negro Bond for Johnson 1 page Saint Louis, Missouri Saint Louis Circuit Court 1843-05-04

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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="2012-07-16">GAL performed initial transcription and encoding</change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text> <body> <div1 rend="handwritten"> <div2 rend="horizontal"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f14i0081_1.tiff"/> <p>Know all men by these presents that we;<lb/> <persName>Mary Johnson</persName> a free negro woman as principal and<lb/> <persName>Frederick R. Courray</persName> as security, both of the City +<lb/> County of St. Louis in the State of <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice>, in the sum<lb/> of four Hundred Dollars: towit: the said <persName>Mary</persName> <lb/> in the sum of two hundred Dollars + the said <persName>Frederick<lb/> R. Courray</persName> as security; in the sum of Two hundred Dollars<lb/> to the payments of which said sumof money we bind<lb/> ourselves our + each of our heirs executors and adminis-<lb/> trators jointly + severally by these presents Sealed with our<lb/> seals, the <date when="1843-05-04">fourth day of May in the year of our Lord<lb/> one thousand eight hundred + forty three</date> </p> <p>The condition of this obligation is such, whereas, the <lb/> said <persName>Mary Johnson,</persName> has this day obtained from the <lb/> County Court, of St. Louis County, as license to remain in<lb/> this State under the provisions of an act of the General<lb/> Assembly, of the Sate of <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice>; entitled an act;<lb/> more effetually to prevent free persons of Color from<lb/> coming in the State, and for other purposes.</p> <p>Now, therefore, if the said <persName>Mary Johnson</persName> shall be <lb/> of good behavior during the continuance of said<lb/> license, then the above obligation, to be void, otherwise<lb/> to be + remain in full force + virtue.</p> <closer> Signed, sealed &<lb/> delivered in presence of<lb/> <signed>John F. Darty</signed> <lb/> <signed>Mary his X mark Johnson</signed> Seal<lb/> <signed>F. R. Courray</signed> Seal </closer> </div2> <div2 rend="vertical"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f14i0081_2.tiff"/> <p> <persName>Mary Johnson</persName> <lb/> To Bond <lb/> </p> <p>The State of <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice> </p> <p> <date when="1843-05-04">May 4.1843</date> </p> </div2> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI>