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Saint Louis Circuit Court Free Negro Bond for Tindell 1 page Saint Louis, Missouri Saint Louis Circuit Court 1843-02-23

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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="2012-08-07">GAL performed initial transcription and encoding</change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text> <body> <div1 rend="handwritten"> <div2 rend="horizontal"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f15i0173_1.tiff"/> <p>Know all men by these presents that we <persName>Eliza<lb/> Tindell</persName>___________ as principal and <persName>John<lb/> Cavender</persName> as security are held and firmly bound<lb/> in the just and full sum of two ___ Hundred<lb/> dollars, each, to the State of Missouri, the pay=<lb/> ment wereof well and truly to be made we bind<lb/> ourselves our heirs executors and administrators firmly<lb/> by these presents: The Condition of this obligation is such that<lb/> whereas the said <persName>Eliza Tindell</persName> has this day<lb/> obtained from the Honorable the County Court of St<lb/> Louis County a License to reside and remainin the <lb/> State of Missouri as a free person of color under the <lb/> provisions of an act entitled "A Act to prevent<lb/> more effectually free persons of color from entering<lb/> into the State and for other purposes" Approved <lb/> <date when="1843-02-23">February 23. 1843</date>. </p> <p>Now if the said <persName>Eliza Tindell</persName> shall be<lb/> of good behavior during the continuance of said<lb/> License thenthe above obligation is void otherwise<lb/> to remain in full force and virtue.</p> <p>In <choice> <orig>Witnefs</orig> </choice> whereof we have hereunto set<lb/> our hands and seals at the city of Saint Louis<lb/> in the County of St Louis and State of Missouri<lb/> this <date when="1845-12-06">sixth day of December AD 1845</date> <lb/> </p> <closer> Signed sealed and<lb/> delivered in presence of <lb/> <signed>Henry W Williams</signed> <lb/> <signed>Eliza her X mark Tindell</signed> Seal<lb/> <signed>John Cavender</signed> Seal </closer> </div2> <div2 rend="vertical"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f15i0173_2.tiff"/> <p> <persName>Geo Junior</persName> <lb/> Bond.<lb/> </p> <p> Filed <date when="1844-11-07">7 Nov 1845</date> <lb/> <persName>S.D. Barlow</persName> Clerk </p> </div2> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI>