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[grim elm]

Je soussigné, J.M. Dawson, [c]hef de police du Settlement International, recoonais devoir à M. Mitsuhirato la somme de 10.700 dollars.
[Signature]
Sha[nghaï] le 18.X.31.

Je soussigné is a formal expression to say that the person makes a formal, official commitment.

[livid pewter]

oh i read it as ive signed

[grim elm]

Exactly. It essentially means "signed below".

[livid pewter]

thank you very much

[grim elm]

(By the way, the comma before soussigné on the letter is a mistake, it shouldn't be there but some people don't know that.)

[livid pewter]

what the je ,soussigné

[grim elm]

Yep, the way it's written on the letter.

[livid pewter]

is this a common thing that natives do

or is it just a mistake here

[grim elm]

I don't think it's a common thing to put the comma there. It's simply a mistake there.