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Saint Louis Circuit Court Free Negro Bond for Baily 1 page Saint Louis, Missouri Saint Louis Circuit Court 1844-06-15

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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="2012-07-17">APJ performed initial transcription and encoding</change> </revisionDesc> </teiHeader> <text> <body> <div1 rend="handwritten"> <div2 rend="horizontal"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f15i0160_1.tiff"/> <p>Know all men by these presents that <lb/> we <persName>Elizabeth Bailey</persName> & <persName>Thomas F Anderson</persName> of <lb/> the City of St Louis & State of Missouri are held <lb/> & firmly bound by these presents to the State <lb/> of Missouri in <add place="above">the</add> Sum of five hundred dollars <lb/> for the just & true payment of which we <add place="above">bind</add> <lb/> ourselves our executors administrators & <choice> <orig>afsigns</orig> </choice> </p> <p>The condition of the above obligation <lb/> is such that whereas the said <persName>Elizabeth Baily</persName> <lb/> a free woman of Colour of the City of St Louis <lb/> & State Missouri has this day obtained a license <lb/> from the County court of the County of St Louis <lb/> State of Missouri under an Act entitled an act <lb/> the more effectually to prevent free persons of <lb/> Colour from entering this State & other pur- <lb rend="hyphen"/> poses Approved <date when="1843-02-23">February twenty third <lb/> in the year of our Lord one thousand eight <lb/> hundred & forty three</date> Now therefor if the <lb/> said <persName>Elizabeth Baily</persName> shall continue of good <lb/> Moral Character & behaviour & to support <lb/> herself by lawful employment then this <lb/> obligation to be void otherwise to remain <lb/> in full force & virtue As <choice> <orig>witnefs</orig> </choice> our hands <lb/> and seals <date when="1843-05"> <unclear unit="chars" quantity="2" rend="written"/> day of May 1843</date> </p> <closer> Signed sealed & <lb/> delivered in presence of <lb/> <signed>William F. Chalk</signed> <lb/> <signed>Tho<hi rend="superscript">s</hi> F Risk</signed> <lb/> <signed>Elizabeth her x mark Baily</signed> Seal <lb/> <signed>Tm F. Anderson</signed> Seal </closer> </div2> <div2 rend="vertical"> <pb n="npn" facs="mhs_A1643_B61f15i0160_2.tiff"/> <p>The Bond of <lb/> <persName>Elizabeth Baily</persName> </p> <p> <persName>Elizabeth Bailey</persName> <lb/> bond <lb/> </p> <p> filed <date when="1844-06-15">June 15, 1844</date> <lb/> <persName>J.H. Milbourne</persName> Clk </p> </div2> </div1> </body> </text> </TEI>