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Non accep.on
y juramento
En dicho dia mes y Ano yo el Escrivano
por medio de los Yntepretes D.n Juan
Josef Duforest y D.n Daniel Mortimer
hize saber el decreto que antecede al
Negro libre Juan Bautista de Nacion
Mina quien acceptò y juro por Dio Nu
estro Senor y una senal de cruz conforme
a dro de cumplir bien y fielmente con su
encargo y no firmo por no saber, hicieronlo
los dos referidos Ynterpretes de
todo lo que yo el infra escrito Es-
crivano doy fee--
Juan Josef Duforest Daniel Mortimer
Ante mi
Pedro Pedesclaux
Es.no Pub.co
Translation
Notification acceptance
and oath
On this day month and year I the Scribe
through the Interpreters Don Juan
Joseph Duforest and Don Daniel Mortimer
I informed the free Black
Juan Bautista of the Mina Nation
of the above decree who accepted it and swore by God
Our Lord and the sign of the cross according
to law to fulfil well and faithfully his
duty and he did not sign because he did not know how,
the two aforementioned Interpreters did so
to all of this I the Scribe written below
attest--
Juan Josef Duforest Daniel Mortimer
Before me
Pedro Pedesclaux
Notary Public