Know all men by these presents that we Thomas Bog Zedekiah Stone & William Bryan are held and firmly bound unto Richard Caswell Esqr. Governor & his Successors in the Sum of Six hundred pounds Proclamation money to the payment whereof well and truly to be made and done we Bind our Selves our and each of our Heirs Exors. Administrators jointly and Severally firmly by these presents Sealed with our Seals and Dated this fourteenth Day of August 1777

The condition of the above obligation is such, that whereas an act has passed the General Assembly of the State of North Carolina entiteled an Act for declaring what Crimes and practises against the State shall be treason, and what shall be Misprison of treason, & providing punishments Adaquate to Crimes of both Classes, & for preventing the danger which may arrise from persons disaffcted to the State, wherein among other things it is enacted, that certain persons under particular descriptions, may be cited to appear at the next County Court, & required to take an Oath, ricited in the Said Act, and also, that any Justice of the peace may Summon, any person residing in the County, to which his Jurisdiction extends, to take the above mentioned Oath, and upon refusal, the said Court is impower'd to order such persons, to depart the State within Sixty Days, & in the mean time, to give Security for their so doing, and whereas the above boun'd Thomas Bog has been cited agreeable to the Above mentioned Act, to appear & take the said Oath which he has refused to do; & the Court hath therefore ordered the said Thomas Bog to depart the said State; now therefore if the said Thomas Bog shall depart this State within Sixty days from the date hereof—

Then the above Obligation to be void, else to remain in full force and Virtue—