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Saint Louis Circuit Court Free Negro Bond for Jones 1 page Saint Louis, Missouri Saint Louis Circuit Court 1843-06-21

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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="2012-07-23">GAL performed initial transcription and encoding</change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text> <body> <div1 rend="handwritten"> <div2 rend="horizontal"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f14i0121_1.tiff"/> <p>Know all men by these presents that I, <persName>Charles Jackson</persName> <lb/> as principal and I, John R. Jones as security are<lb/> held and firmly bound to the State of <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice> in teh sum of<lb/> Two hundred dollars for the payment of which sum well and<lb/> truly to be made we bind ourselves our heirs executors and legal representatives.__</p> <p>The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas <lb/> the County Court of teh County of Saint Louis has this day granted<lb/> license to the said <persName>Charles Jackson</persName> to reside in the State of <lb/> <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice> so long as he shall be of good behavior, in ac-<lb/> cordance with an act entitled "an act more effectually to prevent<lb/> free persons of color from entering this State and for other<lb/> purposes approved February 23d 1843_ Now if the above<lb/> bounden <persName>Charles Jackson</persName> shall be of good behavior, as re-<lb/> quired by said act, then this bond to be void and of no<lb/> effect otherwise to remain in full force and virtue._</p> <p>In testimony whereof we hereto set our hands and<lb/> seals at St. Louis this <date when="1843-06-21">twenty first day of June A.D.<lb/> eighteen hundred and forty three</date> </p> <closer> Witness <signed>Henry J. Wise</signed> <lb/> <signed>Charles Jackson</signed> Seal<lb/> <signed>J John R. Jones</signed> Seal </closer> </div2> <div2 rend="vertical"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f14i0121_2.tiff"/> <p> <persName>Charles Jackson</persName> <lb/> To Bond <lb/> State of <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice> <lb/> <date when="1843-06-21">June 21. 1843</date> </p> </div2> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI>