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Saint Louis Circuit Court Free Negro Bond for Berry 1 page Saint Louis, Missouri Saint Louis Circuit Court 1845-11-07

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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_B61f15i0170_1.tiff"/> <p>Know all men by these presents that we <lb/> <persName>London Berry</persName> as principal and <persName>William <lb/> C. Anderson Jr.</persName> as security are held and firmly <lb/> bound in the just sum of two Hundred dollars <lb/> each to the State of <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice> the payment whereof <lb/> well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves <lb/> our heirs executors and administrators firmly <lb/> by these presents; </p> <p>The condition of this <lb/> obligation is such that whereas the said <persName>London <lb/> Berry</persName> has this day obtained from the Honorable <lb/> the County Court of St. Louis County a license <lb/> to reside and remain in the State of Missouri <lb/> as a free person of color under the provisions <lb/> of an act entitled an act to prevent more <lb/> effectually free persons of color from en- <lb rend="hyphen"/> tering into this State and for other purposes <lb/> Approved <date when="1843-02-23">23d February 1843</date>; </p> <p>Now if the said <lb/> London Berry shall be of good behavior du- <lb rend="hyphen"/>ring the continuance of said license, then the <lb/> above obligation is void, otherwise to remain <lb/> in full force and virtue; </p> <p>In Witness whereof we have hereunto set <lb/> our hands and seals at the City of St. Louis, <lb/> County of St. Louis and State of <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice> this <lb/> <date when="1845-11-06">Sixth day of November A.D. 1845</date>; </p> <closer> Signed, sealed, and delivered <lb/> in the presence of <lb/> <signed>Diogenes Witmore</signed>; <lb/> <signed>London Berry</signed> Seal <lb/> <signed>WC Anderson Jr</signed> Seal </closer> </div2> <div2 rend="vertical"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f15i0170_2.tiff"/> <p> <hi rend="underline"> <persName>London Berry</persName> </hi> <lb/> Bond </p> <p> Filed <date when="1845-11-07">7 Nov 1845</date> <lb/> <persName>SD Barlow</persName> Clerk </p> </div2> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI>