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Saint Louis Circuit Court Free Negro Bond for Mason 1 page Saint Louis, Missouri Saint Louis Circuit Court 1844-01-11

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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_B61f15i0147_1.tiff"/> <p>Know all men by these presents that we <persName>Lewis Mason</persName> <lb/> a free man of Color as principal and <persName>Samuel<lb/> Black</persName> as security are held and firmly bound in <lb/> the sum of two hundred dollars each to the state of <lb/> <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice> for the payment of which we bind<lb/> ourselves our heirs +c firmly by these presents<lb/> sealed with our seals and dated this <date when="1844-01-11">eleventh<lb/> day of January in the year eighteen hundred<lb/> and forty four_______________</date> </p> <p>The condition of this obligation as such<lb/> that whereas the County Court of St. Louis County <lb/> at the December term thereof on the year afores<lb/> aid granted a License to the said <persName>Lewis Mason</persName> <lb/> to reside in the State of <choice> <orig>Mifsouri</orig> </choice> Now if the<lb/> said <persName>Lewis Mason</persName> shall be of good behaviour<lb/> during his residence in said state then the<lb/> above obligation shall be Null _ void otherwise<lb/> to remain in full force & effect<lb/> In testimony whereof the said persons<lb/> have here to set their hands and offered their<lb/> seals this day + year aforesaid</p> <closer> <choice> <orig>Witnefs</orig> </choice> <lb/> <signed>Janus J. Bird</signed> <signed>Lewis his X mark Mason</signed> Seal<lb/> <signed>Samuel Black</signed> Seal </closer> </div2> <div2 rend="vertical"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f15i0147_2.tiff"/> <p> <persName>Lewis Mason</persName> <lb/> Free Negro<lb/> License Bond</p> <p> Filed <date when="1844-01-11">Filed Jany. 11th 1844</date> <lb/> <persName> <abbr>Ja.</abbr> H Milburn</persName> Clk</p> </div2> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI>