TRUSS & SHEA To Governor, Bond, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller

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Truss and Shea To E. D. White Governor 
Bond as Grog shop keepers
14th June 1836 Recorded

Know all men by thes[e] presents, That we Truss & Shea principals and Napoleon
Franchebois security are held and firmly bound unto Edward D. White Governor
of the State of Louisiana and to his successors in office, in the sum of Five
hundred Dollars, which sum well and truly to pay to the said Edward D.
White--Governor of the State of Louisiana, and to his successors in office, we
do bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, and administrators, firmly by these
presents with our hands and sealed with our seals in the Parish of St. Landry,
this fourteenth day of June in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight
hundred and thirty six--Whereas the above bound Truss & Shea principals have
obtained a License to Keep a Grog shop in the Town of Opelousas from and after
the date hereof, to the first Monday in May 1837--Now the condition of the
above obligation is such, that if the said bound Truss & Shea the principal &
shall contravene any one of the provisions in relation to Slaves contained in
this act entitled, "An act to amend the Black Code"  approved March 16th 1830,
or should the said bound Truss & Shea the principals keep a disorderly Grog
Shop or permit an assemblage of more than three slaves (not belonging to them
or in their employment) at the said Grog Shop kept by them or at such other
place as they may be in act of retailling [sic] spirituous liquors at, in said
Town then the above obligation shall be forfeited, and the amount thereof be
recovered before any court of competent jurisdiction in the State of Louisiana
one half to the use of the person who shall sue thereon and the other half to
the use of the parish of St. Landry.   C. Truss  --  W. Shea --  N.
Franchebois -- Witness --Guy H. Bell --  B. Berrard   Acknowledged and
executed before me  Geo. King Parish Judge  St. Landry

Source:  Family History Library Microfilm #1412749, Item 3, Notarial Records,
St. Landry Parish, Pages 4-5.