It happened in the town of Graeva on the 9th (21st) of September 1888 in  the third hour of the afternoon appeared in person the Jew Berko Volf  Moshkovich BOGUSH, landlord merchant age 62 resident of the town of Graeva, in the presence of witnesses the Jews Aron MALAKHOVSKY scholar age 72 and Yankel VERNIK bath-house attendant age 64 residents of the town of Graeva, and presented to us a child of the male sex and declared that he had been  born in the town of Graeva on the 2nd (14th) of this month and year in the 11th hour of the evening from his legal wife Brayna Odesa Zelkovna nee ZELIKZON age 40 married name BOGUSH. During circumcision, the child was given the name Meer.

This act was read to the declarer and the witnesses and then signed by Us [the clerk] and the witnesses.

The declarer is illiterate. {Hence didn't sign}