Avoyelles County Louisiana Archives History .....
Coasting License February 2 1816

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Bobby Duplissey Dup86@bellsouth.net September 13, 2004, 6:18 pm

This is a Avoyelles Parish Court Record For a Coasting License(Shipping).



State Of Louisiana
Parish of Avoyelles                  No. 493
Bound of 500 $
Dominique Plessy


     I Joseph Santo as principal and I Dominique Plessy as bail(bondsman)we
pledge our word to pay jointly and severally to the judge of the parish,to
him or his successors in office,the amount of five hundred piastres,the
legal currency of the United States of America,Avoyelles,February 2, 1816.
     The conditions of the bond (recognizance)above mentioned
are,considering Sir Joseph Santo has obtained today the coasting license for
one year,he will not infringe the law relative to the coast sailors or coast
goods traders approved on the 8th. of April 1811. If so he breaks the so-
called law,the so-called bond above mentioned becomes null and on the
contrary,the bond above mentioned remains valid and effective.
     Done on this very day. Above,Joseph Santo has written his ordinary
cross, having declared he could not sign.


D.Plessy                                    Ordinary mark of
  caution                                   Joseph (X) Santo


Recorded February 2nd. 1816

                           F. Plauche, Judge of the
                              Parish of Avoyelles



(There is another document exactly like this one,except in it Joseph Santo
put up the bond for Dominique Plessy. So, they jointly owned a shipping
license.)


(Also, Dominique Plessy signed his own name --- D.Plessy)

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