Know all men by these presents that we Robert Lenox James Iredel & George Lockhart are held and firmly Bound to his Excellency the Governer & 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, and Administrators jointly and Severally firmly by these presents Sealed without 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 practices against the State shall be treason, & what shall be Misprison of treason, & providing punishments adaquate to Crimes of both Classes, & for preventing the dangers which may arise from persons disaffected to the State," wherein among other things it is enacted, that cert[ain] persons under particular descriptions, may be cited to appear at the next County Court, & 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 extends, to take the Above mentioned Oath, & 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 bounden Robert Lenox has been cited agreeable to the above mentioned act, to appear & take the said Oath, which he has refused to do; and the Court hath therefore Ordered the said Robert Lenox to depart the said State now therefore if the said Robert Lenox shall Depart this State within Sixty days from the Date hereof

Then his Obligation to be Void else to remain in full force and Virtue.

Ro Lenox

Jas Iredell

Geo Lockhart

Signed Sealed—
& delivered in ⅌sence
of John Johnston

Lenox
to                   }Bond
the Governor