It happened in the town of Mlawa on the fifth day of March in the year eighteen hundred and ninety eight at ten o’clock in the morning. Szymsie [Shimon Alter son of Yitzhak Yakov Ha-Levy] Tachna, age thirty seven, tanner, residing in the town of Mlawa, appeared in the presence of the witnesses Abram Moszek Etingier, age seventy six, and Symche Watmacher, age forty three, both of whom synagogue sextons residing in the town of Mlawa, and showed us a child of the male gender, declaring that it was born in the town of Mlawa on the fourteenth of January in the year eighteen hundred and ninety six at six o’clock in the morning to his wedded wife Zysa [Tzippora daughter of Mikhael Ha-Cohen] née Kon, age thirty seven at present.  The child was given the name Zelman [Shlomo son of Shimon Alter Ha-Levy].  This document was read to the testifier, then signed by us, the witnesses and the father of the child.