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Saint Louis Circuit Court Free Negro Bond for Finley 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_B61f14i0075_1.tiff"/> <p>Know all men by these presents that we <lb/> <persName>Hardin Finley </persName>as principal and <persName>Charles<lb/> G. Chesley</persName> as security are held and firmly <lb/> bound unto the State of Missouri in the sum <lb/> of two hundred Dollars each that is to say that<lb/> the said <persName>Hardin Finley</persName> as principel in the <lb/> sum of two hundred dollars and the said<lb/> security in the sum of two hundred dollars<lb/> for the true payment of which sum well<lb/> and truly to be make the said <persName>Hardin Finley</persName> <lb/> as principal and the said <persName>Charles G. Chesley</persName> <lb/> as security hereby bind themselves their heirs<lb/> executors and administrators firmly by these<lb/> presents with their seals and dated this <lb/> <date>fourth day of May A.D. 1843</date> Now the conditionof this bond is such that <lb/> whereas the County Court of St. Louis County<lb/> hath granted a license to the above bounder <lb/> <persName>Hardin Finley</persName> a license to reside and re<lb/> main in the State of Missouri according to<lb/> the statute in such case made and provided<lb/> Now if said <persName>Hardin Finley</persName> be of good be-<lb/> havior while he remain in the State of Miss<lb/> ouri then this bond to be void, otherwise to <lb/> remain in full force and virtue</p> <closer> Attest<lb/> <signed>Diogenes Wetmar</signed> <lb/> <signed>Hardin his X mark Finley</signed>Seal<lb/> <signed>C.G. Chesley</signed> Seal </closer> </div2> <div2 rend="vertical"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f14i0075_2.tiff"/> <p> <persName>Hardin Finley</persName> <lb/> To Bond<lb/> </p> <p>The State of Missouri</p> <p> <date when="1843-05-04">May 4. 1843</date> </p> </div2> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI>