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English translation:

It happened in Kossuty in the rooms of the Civil Record Office for non-Christian religion of the district Zareby Koscielne on the twelfth/twenty fourth of October, eighteen hundred forty four at two o’clock in the afternoon.  Being common practice, we notify that in the presence of the Jewish witnesses Abraham Moskowicz Arbes, age fifty, and Abraham Nochimowicz Blatman, age forty six, both of whom are house owners residing in Zareby Koscielne, the Jew Matys Lerman, Rabbi, who appeared today, personally announced, that in Zareby Koscielne on the sixth/eighteenth of the current month and year at eight o’clock in the evening was performed the religious wedding of the Jew Izrael [Yisroael] Abrahamowicz Tachna, bachelor, age twenty, son of the Jews Abraham, deceased, and Dwora [Devorah] married couple Leybowicz Tachna, living with his mother, and Sura Idzkowna Sliwka, unmarried, age seventeen, daughter of the Jews Idzek and Mindla married couple Aronowicz Sliwka, living with her parents, residing in Zareby Koscielne.  The wedding preceded three banns in the synagogue of Zareby Koscielne on the holidays of first, the second/fourteenth, second, the ninth/twenty first, and third, the sixteenth/twenty eighth of September of the current year, and that permission was given to this wedding personally by the mother of the groom and the parents of the bride, and that no obstruction against the marriage has occurred.  The newly married testified that they have not performed any premarital contract before the regent.  This marriage document was read to those who appeared and signed by one of the witnesses, by Rabbi Matys Lerman, as well as by the Official of the Civil Registry Office, whereas the groom and the other witness testified that they cannot write.