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And now personally came and intervened in these Presents,  
Magdalena Doll, of age, wife of said Christian Mehle and Mary Jane Williams, of age, wife of the said Hortaire Inbau, who did declare unto me, Notary, that it is their wish and intention to release in favor of the said purchaser the slave Pierre herein described, from the matrimonial, dotal, paraphernal and other rights, and from any claims, mortgages or other privileges to which they are or may be entitled, whether by virtue of their marriage with their said husband or otherwise.

WHEREUPON, I, the said Notary, did inform the said wives apart and out of the presence and hearing of their said husband and before receiving their signature that they had by law a legal mortgage on the property of their said husband FIRST_- For the restitution of their dowry, and for the reinvestment of the dotal property sold by their husband, and which they brought in marriage, reckoning from the celebration of the marriage: SECONDLY- For the restitution and reinvestment of the dotal property by them acquired since marriage, whether by succession or donation, from the day the succession was opened, or the donation perfected: THIRDLY-  For nuptial presents: FoURTHLY- For debts by them contracted with their said husband: And FIFTHLY- For the amount of their paraphernal property alienated by them and received by their said husband, or otherwise disposed of for the individual interest of their said husband.

And the said wives did thereupon declare unto me, Notary, that they were fully aware of, and acquainted with the nature and extent of the matrimonial, dotal, paraphernal and other rights and privileges thus secured to them by law, on the property of their said husband and that availing themselves of the rights secured to them by the second section of an act passed by the Legislature of this State, authorizing wives to make valid renunciations, etc., approved on the twenty-seventh day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, they nevertheless did persist in their intention of renouncing, not only all the rights, claims and privileges herein before enumerated and described, but all others of any kind or nature whatever, to which they are or may be entitled by any laws now or heretofore in force in the State of Louisiana.

And the said husband being now present, aiding and authorizing their said wives in the execution of these presents, they the said wives did again declare that they did and doth hereby make a formal renunciation and relinquishment of all their said matrimonial, dotal, paraphernal and other rights, claims and privileges, in favor of the said purchaser binding themselves and their heirs at all times to sustain and acknowledge the validity of this renunciation.

THUS DONE AND PASSED, in my office, at the City of New Orleans on the day in the month and year aforesaid in the presence of Bernard Ryan Coffey and Kaspar Auch witnesses of age, and domiciliated in this city, who hereunto sign their names, together with the said parties and me, the said Notary, after the reading of this act.

Original signed Christian Mehle - Magdalena Mehle - Hortaire Inbau - M.J. Inbau. - James Roberts - B.R. Coffey - Kaspar Auch. - J.F. Coffey - Not. Pub.

Registered in Conveyance Book, H to 193.
Parish of Jefferson 18th. December 1860
Emmet Commague

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