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English translation:

It happened in the village of Zaręby on the fourth / sixteenth of March, eighteen hundred and thirty seven at seven o’clock in the morning. Appeared the Jew Chaim Leyb Epsztejn, Rabbi of the Czyżewo District, together with the Jew Majer Aronowicz Hazde, age twenty six according to the akt znania* Lett. A, shoemaker, born in the village of Zaręby, son of the deceased Aron Maierowicz and the living Mnucha Mośkówna married couple Hazde, residing in the village of Zaręby, bachelor, and Liba Abramówna, spinster, age twenty six according to the akt znania* Lett. B, born in the village of Zaręby, daughter of Abraam Leybowicz and the deceased Szeyna Leybowiczówna, married couple Tachno, born in the village of Zaręby, earning their living from writing G-d’s Commandments, until now living with his father, and testified that today before him in the presence of Mnucha Mośkówna, the mother of Majer, as well as Abram Leybowicz, the father of Liba, as well as in the presence of the witnesses Peysak Waygord, synagogue sexton, age seventy one, and Aba Moszkowicz Armus, clothier, age fifty, both of whom residing in the village of Zaręby, was performed the religious wedding between Maier Aronowicz Hazde and Liba Abraamówna Tachno, that it preceded three banns that were announced on the sixth, fourteenth and twenty first of February in the District of Andrzejewo, that the here present Mnucha Moszkówna and Abraam Leybowicz Tachno gave their verbal permission to this wedding in the presence of the newly wed and that no obstruction against the marriage occurred. The newly wed declared that they did not conclude any official premarital contract concerning property. This document was read to those who appeared and the witnesses and signed by Rabbi Chaim Leyb Epsztein and Abraam Leybowicz Tachno, the others here present cannot write.