Know all men by these presents that we James Buchanan William Gray and Zedakia Stone are held and firmly Bound unto Richard Caswell 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 ourselves our (and each of our) Heirs Execrs. Administators Jointly and Severally firmly by these presents sealed with our Sals 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 practices against the State Shall be Treason, and what shall be Misprison of Treason, and providing punishments Adaquate to Crimes of both Classes, & for preventing the danger which may arise from persons disaffected 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 and required to take an Oath recited in the said act, and also, that any Justice of the peace may summon any person residing in the County to which his Jurisdiction extend[s] 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, and in the mean time [to] Give security for their so doing, and whereas the [ab]ove bound James Buchanan has been cited [agr]eeable to the above mentioned Act, to appear and take the [sai]d Oath which [he has refused] to do; And the Court hath therefore Ordered the said James Buchanan to depart the said State, now therefore if the said James Buchanan 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—