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St. Bartholomew, West Indies "St. Barts", 1797 Tri-Lingual Notice of Legal Fees under Swedish Rule.

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St. Bartholomew, West Indies  St. Barts , 1797  Tri-Lingual Notice of Legal Fees under Swedish Rule.
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Stockholm, Sweden and St. Bartholomew, West Indies, May 2, 1797, 54 x 41.5 cm. Broadside with Trilingual notice of legal fees in the island of St. Bartholomew, around 40 different legal services are listed, A line toward the end states "the poor pay nothing", Written in Swedish, French and English, Sweden took over the island in 1784 when it was purchased from France and controlled it until 1878, Unused and untrimmed margins as issued in excellent fresh condition, Printed in large bold type at bottom "Gustav Adolph. (L.S.), Only 3 other copies of this document are known. Rare and historic early West Indies document.