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English translation:

It happened in the village of Zaremby on the twelfth of May, eighteen hundred thirty four at three o’clock in the afternoon.  The Jew Juszko [Yosef] Simsiowicz Tachna, tailor, age twenty seven, residing in the village of Zaremby, appeared in the presence of the witnesses Herszko Moszkowicz Armus, tailor, age forty eight, and Leybka Moszkowicz Armus, tailor, age thirty two, both of whom are residing in the village of Zaremby, and showed us a child of the male gender, born in the village of Zaremby on the twenty second of April of the current year at six o’clock in the evening, to his wife Reyza Leybowna, age twenty four, to whom at the circumcision was given the name Szymek [Shimon].  This document was read to those who appeared.  The father and the witnesses cannot write.  We witness the word that is crossed through in the ninth line from the top of this document.