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English translation:

It happened in the town of Nur on the eleventh / twenty third of August eighteen hundred fifty eight at eleven o’clock before noon the Jew Boruch Abramowicz [Boruch son of Avram Ha-Levy] Tachna, age thirty three, a shoemaker, residing in the town of Nur, appeared in the presence of the witnesses the Jews Abram Srolowicz Szarf, age thirty three, a shoe maker, and Jankiel Ickowicz Danenberg, age fifty eight, a day laborer, both residing in the town of Nur, and showed us a female child, born in the town of Nur on the fourth / sixteenth of August of the current year at six o’clock in the morning from his wife Sora Chunowna [Sara daughter of Chanoch] (of the family Abramowicz), age thirty eight, whom at the religious ceremony was given the name Gitla [Tova daughter of Boruch Ha-Levy].  This document was read aloud and comprehensibly to those who appeared and signed only by the servant of the Vital Records Office, whereas the father of the child and both witnesses cannot write.