Business Declaration, Margaret E. McKee
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
El Dorado County
To all whom it may concern notice is hereby given, That I, Margaret E. McKee, wife of Frederick McKee of the city of Placerville, County and State aforesaid, in pursuance of a law of the State of California entitled, "An Act to authorize married women to transact and carry on business in their own names, as sole traders", passed April 12th, 1852, do hereby declare that it is my intention, from and after this date, to carry on the business of buying and selling goods, wares, and merchandise and produce and general trading business and I will be individually responsible for all debts contracted by me.- And I further declare, that the sum invested in said business does not exceed five thousand dollars.
M.E. McKee
State of California,
El Dorado County ss
On this 17th day of November A.D. 1854, personally appeared before me, a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County and State, Margaret E. McKee, to me known to be the person described in, and who executed the above declaration, who declared that she made and executed the same for the uses and purposes therein mentioned.Witness my hand the day and year above written.
E.B. Carson, J.P.
The Mountain Democrat, Placerville California, January 1854
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