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Marshall's ing articles have been deliberately and freely stipulated and adopted to be for ever binding and obligatory upon the said parties to these presents in law, equity, and shall hereafter reside, and wheresoever the same may honour, wheresoever the said parties or any of them affect their respective estates, real, personal, and mixed, whatsoever and wheresoever. "Now these articles witness that, in consideration of the said intended marriage, the said Jerome Bonaparte, for himself, his heirs, executors, and administrators, and for all other persons whom he can lawfully bind by the laws of France or of the United States of America, covenants, promises, and agrees to and with the said Elizabeth Patterson, her heirs, executors, and administrators, and to and with the said William Patterson, his heirs, executors, and administors, jointly and severally, in manner following, that is to say : First That the marriage of the said Jerome Bonaparte and Elizabeth Patterson shall be contracted and solemnized in all due form of law to render the same valid to all intents and purposes, as well according to the laws of the State of Maryland as according to the laws of the republic of France, and that if at any time hereafter any doubts shall be suggested respecting the validity of the said marriage, either in the said State of Maryland or in the said republic of France, the said Jerome Bonaparte shall and will at all times, upon the request of the said Elizabeth Patterson and the said William Patterson, or either of them, do and perform any and every act necessary to remove such doubts and to render the union of the said Jerome Bonaparte and the said Elizabeth Patterson in all respects a valid and perfect marriage according to the respective laws of the said State of Maryland and the said republic of France, and subject to all the stipulations, covenants, and agreements in these articles contained. "Second-That if the said Jerome Bonaparte shall first die without leaving a child or children by the said Elizabeth Patterson, then the said Elizabeth Patterson shall be entitled to have, hold, receive, and enjoy onethird part of all the estate, real, personal, and mixed, of THE BONAPARTE-PATTERSON MARRIAGE. the said Jerome Bonaparte whatsoever and wheresoever, The New York World, in its issue of October 17, present or future, in absolute right, property, or posses1880, gives some particulars of the marriage between for ever, and that the said Jerome Bonaparte in his lifesion, to her heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns Jerome Bonaparte and the young belle of Balti-time, and his heirs, executors, administrators, and all more, Miss Elizabeth Patterson, whom he was afterwards forced to disavow by his imperious brother Napoleon. The Patterson incident is pretty well known, and the disavowal of the marriage is not the least discreditable incident in the annals of the Bonapartes. The World gives the marriage contract, which has recently been turned up by one of its correspondents at Baltimore. This your readers may like to see : "State of Maryland, to wit: Articles of agreement and settlement, made and concluded this twenty-fourth day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and three, between Jerome Bonaparte, a citizen of the French Republic, now domiciled and residing in the State of Maryland, one of the United States of America, of the first part, Elizabeth Patterson, of the city of Baltimore, in said State of Maryland, of the second part, and William Patterson, of the said city of Baltimore, in the State of Maryland (father of the said Elizabeth Patterson), of the third part. Whereas, by the mutual consent and agreement of the parties to these presents, a marriage is intended shortly to be had and solemnized between the said Jerome Bonaparte and the said Elizabeth Patterson; and in consideration thereof the follow other persons whom he can lawfully bind after his decease, shall and will, at the request of the said Elizabeth Patterson and William Patterson, or either of them, do and perform all acts and things necessary further and effectually to convey, assure, and confirm unto the said Elizabeth Patterson in manner aforesaid the said onethird part of his estate according to the respective laws of France and of Maryland, or any other country in which shall be found the said estate, real, personal, and mixed, or any part thereof. "Third-That if the said Jerome Bonaparte shall die leaving a child or children by the said Elizabeth Patterson, then the estate of the said Jerome Bonaparte, real, personal, and mixed, whatsoever and wheresoever, present or future, shall be divided and allotted into equal moieties, one moiety whereof the said Elizabeth Patterson shall be entitled to have, hold, receive, and enjoy for and during the term of her natural life, and after her decease the same shall descend and pass to the said child or children, to be held or divided as the case may be in the like manner as is hereinafter provided touching the other moiety. And as to the other moiety of the said estate, real, personal, and mixed, the same shall be held and enjoyed by the said child, if only one, and his or her heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns, if more than one child by said children, and their |