"Comes Jesse Lee a colored man and exhibits his papers of emancipation showing his right to freedom, and upon the testimony of Christopher Hoy and John Gringdofph(sp), the Court is satisfied that the said Jesse Lee is a man of good moral and industrious habits and that he is entitled to a permit to remain in this State. It is therefore ordered by this Court that the said Jesse Lee upon filing a bond in the Court as the law requires, receive a license to remain in the State as long as he sustains a moral and industrious character and no longer."
