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Saint Louis Circuit Court Free Negro Bond for Bond 1 page Saint Louis, Missouri Saint Louis Circuit Court 1846-12-24

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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="2012-07-12">GAL performed initial transcription and encoding</change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text> <body> <div1 rend="handwritten"> <div2 rend="horizontal"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f13i0049_1.tiff"/> <p>Know all men by these presents that we <persName>Ferdinand</persName> <lb/> a free man of color as principal, and <persName>W. G. Ray</persName> <lb/> __________ as security, are firmly held and bound<lb/> unto the State of <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice>, in the final sum of two <lb/> hundred dollars <add place="above">Each</add> upon condition <choice> <orig>neverthelefs</orig> </choice>, that<lb/> whereas the said <persName>Ferdinand</persName> has this day obtained<lb/> a license from the County Court within and for<lb/> the County of St. Louis in the State of <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice>, to<lb/> furnish him the said <persName>Ferdinand</persName> to remain in <lb/> the State of <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice>; now if the said <persName>Ferdinand</persName> <lb/> shall be of good behaviour, and conduct him=<lb/> self in and orderly and collect manner during<lb/> his stay in said State of <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice>, then this ob=<lb/> ligation to be void, else of full force and virtue.</p> <p>In testimony whereof, we have hereunto set our<lb/> hands and seals this <date when="1843-05-04">fourth day of May eig=<lb/> teen hundred and forty-three.</date> </p> <closer> Done in presence of<lb/> <signed>Ferdinand</signed>Seal<lb/> <signed>Winthrop G. Ray</signed> </closer> </div2> <div2 rend="vertical"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f13i0049_2.tiff"/> <p> Bond of <persName>Ferdinand</persName> <lb/> &<lb/> </p> <p>to<lb/>The State of <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice> </p> <p> <date when="1843-05-03">3rd May 1843</date> </p> </div2> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI>