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Saint Louis Circuit Court Free Negro Bond for Powell 1 page Saint Louis, Missouri Saint Louis Circuit Court 1843-11-14

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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="2012-07-25">GAL performed initial transcription and encoding</change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text> <body> <div1 rend="handwritten"> <div2 rend="horizontal"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f14i0139_1.tiff"/> <p>Know all men by these presents that We <persName>John<lb/> Powell</persName> as principal an <persName>Charles Ricker</persName> <lb/> as security are held and firmly bound into the<lb/> State of Missouri in the just and full sum of Two<lb/> hundred dollars each for the true payment<lb/> of which sum of money we bind ourselves executors<lb/> adminsitrators and assigns jointly and severally<lb/> by these presents sealed with our seals and dated <lb/> this <date when="1843-11-14">fourteenth day of November Eighteen hundred +<lb/> forty three </date>The condition of this obligation is <lb/> such that whereas <persName>John Powell</persName> has this <lb/> day obtained from the county court of the <lb/> county of S Louis a license to remain in<lb/> the Sate of Missouri as a free person<lb/> of Color made the provisions of an act entitled<lb/> an act to more effectually prevent free<lb/> persons of color from entering into the State<lb/> and other purposes" Now the condition of this bond is such that if the said <persName>John<lb/> Powell</persName> shall be of good behaviour during th<lb/> the continuance of said license then<lb/> the above obligationto be null and void<lb/> Otherwise to be and remain in full force an<lb/> virtue in Law<lb/> </p> <closer> Witness<lb/> <signed>Andrew HH Dawson</signed> <lb/> <signed>John his X mark Powell</signed> Seal<lb/> <signed>Charles <unclear unit="words" quantity="1"/> </signed> Seal </closer> </div2> <div2 rend="vertical"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f14i0139_2.tiff"/> <p> <persName>John Powell</persName> <lb/> To Bond <lb/> State of <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice> <lb/> <date when="1843-11-14">November 14. 1843</date> </p> </div2> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI>