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AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION.
claims, except however the clothes and Linen to my use, and the instruments indispensable to my profession by which I make my living, and which the law authorises me to Keep-and I do further solemnly swear that the said schedule contains a correct and :faithful statement of my acti-ve and passive debts, and of the looses I have experia.nced in my affairs, and that I have neither directly or in- directly divested anything of my property to the Injury of my cred- itors So help me God- • (Signed) Jl\ILA KEEP Sworn to and Subscribed before me 7th of March 1825 BENJ M STOKES J. P. On which Petition the Judge made the following order To wit; Ordered that a meeting of the creditors of the Petitioner be held before the Parish Judge of said, Parrish, on the second monday of May next to deliberate on the nff airs of the petitioner, and that in the mean time all proceedings be stayed against his person and property, and untill further Order be had thereon 9 th April 1825. (Signed) W. MunnAY Judge 6th District I certify that I have this day posted up at the Jail Door a notice to the Creditors of the said Imla Keep, returnable on the second monday of present month, according to Law May 4 th 1825 W:r.r. R. LECIUE DY Clk And afterwards, to wit, on the 9 th day of May 1825 the Parish Judge gave the following certificate to wit Imla Keep vs His creditors On this 9 th day of May 1825 appea1·ed nt my office the sa.id .Imla Keep by Isaac Thomas his attorney, and the creditors of the said Keep failing to appear, and no opposition being made to the surren- der of property by said Keep, the same is certified to the sixth Dis- trict Court. Parish of Rapidc- Th. C. Scorr Par Judge State of Louisiana Parish of Rapide • I William R Leckie clerk of the sixth District ancl Parish Courts for the Parish and State aforesaid-Do certify the foregoing to be a true Transcript of the Record, and all the proceedings lrnd in the case of Imla Keep vs His Creditors exising in my Office. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Subscribed my name and affixed.the ,seal of Office This.20 th day, of March A D 1826 • (Signed) ·wM. R. LECKIE Clk
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