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English translation:

It happened in the town of Mlawa on the fourteenth/twenty sixth of December, eighteen hundred and forty at ten o'clock before noon. The Jew Zelman Wielgolawski, residing here in the town of Mlawa, forty years old, appeared in the presence of the witnesses, the Jews Lewin Szmulowicz Landau, synagogue sexton of Mlawa, forty eight years old, as well as Matys Szpira, stall-keeper of Mlawa, fifty eight years old, and showed us a child of male gender that was born here in Mlawa on the seventh / nineteenth of December, eighteen hundred and forty at five o'clock in the afternoon to his wife, Ruchla née Tachna, twenty five years old. Today at circumcison this child was given the names Jakob Mosiek [Yakov Moshe]. This document was read to the testifier and the witnesses and signed by the witnesses, whereas the father testified that he cannot write.