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Saint Louis Circuit Court Free Negro Bond for LaBeaurne 1 page Saint Louis, Missouri Saint Louis Circuit Court 1846-12-10

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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="2012-07-19">APJ performed initial transcription and encoding</change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text> <body> <div1 rend="handwritten"> <div2 rend="horizontal"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f16i0194_1.tiff"/> <p>Know all men by these presents, that we <persName>Samuel <lb/> LaBeaurne</persName>, as principal, and <persName>C. Edmund LaBeaurne</persName> <lb/> and <persName>Louis A. LaBeaurne</persName>, as securities, are <lb/> firmly held and bound unto the state of <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice> <lb/> in the sum of one thousand dollars, for the <lb/> payment of which we bind ourselves our heirs <lb/> executors and administrators firmly by these presents. </p> <p>Provided, however, that whereas the said <lb/> <persName>Samuel LaBeaurne</persName> has this day obtained a <lb/> license from the County Court of S<hi rend="superscript">t</hi> Louis County <lb/> State of <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice>, in accordance with ac act <lb/> entitled "an act concerning free negroes and <lb/> mulattoes" approved <date when="1825-03-26">March 26th 1825</date>, to reside <lb/> within the state of <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice> as long as his <lb/> behaviour is good, then this bond shall be void <lb/> and of none effect, otherwise it shall remain <lb/> and be in full force and effect. </p> <p>In <choice> <orig>witnefs</orig> </choice> whereof we have hereunto set <lb/> our hands and seals this <date when="1846-12-05">fifth day of December <lb/> eighteen hundred and forty six</date> </p> <closer> <signed>Samuel his x mark LaBeaurne</signed> Seal <lb/> <signed>C. Edmund LaBeaurne</signed> Seal <lb/> <signed>Louis A LaBeaurne</signed> Seal </closer> </div2> <div2 rend="vertical"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f16i0194_2.tiff"/> <p> <persName>Saml LaBeaurne</persName> <lb/> Bond </p> <p> Filed <date when="1846-12-10">10 Dec 1846</date> </p> </div2> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI>