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Know all men by these presents that we Edwin G. Booth and Thos S. Gholson are held and firmly bound unto the commonwealth of Virginia in the sum of one thousand dollars, to the payment of which well and truly to be made we bind ourselves, our heirs Executors and Administrators jointly and severally firmly by these presents  Sealed with our seals and dated this 25th day of March 1859  
The condition of the above obligation is such that whereas by a decree of the Circuit Court for Dinwiddie County - pronounced on the 25th day of March 1859 - in a suit therein depending  between Thos. Stewarts distributees Plantiffs [Plaintiffs] and Thompson Ferguson &c Defendants it was amongst other things decreed that Edwin G. Booth, should receive the sum of $553 - 24 cts.  Now if the said Booth shall account to the representatives of Nancy - Stewart - Mary - Thomas  Charles - John Mourning  [illegible] children and representatives of Thomas Stewart ded [decd] - for any portion of the above sum to which they may prove themselves entitled - before this Court - then the above obligation to be void otherwise remain in full force & virtue
Edwin G. Booth      seal
Thos. S. Gholson   seal