O Say Can You See

Know all these men by these presents that Mr I Montgomery Blair am are held and firmly bound unto Henry Naylor, administrator of George Naylor in the full and just sum of two hundred dollars lawful money, to which payment well and truly to be made and done, we bind ourselves and each of us, our and each of our heirs executors and administrators jointly and severally, firmly by these presents sealed with our seals and dated this 29 day of Dec 1858[?].

Whereas, lately at a Circuit Court of the District of Columbia, sitting for the County of Washington, in a suit pending in the said Court wherein a certain Susan Vigel was plaintiff and the said Henry Naylor, administrator of George Naylor was defendant; judgment was rendered against the said plaintiff and she having obtained a writ of error, and filed a copy thereof in the Clerks Office of the said Circuit Court, to reverse the judgment in the aforesaid suit, and a citation directed to the said Henry Naylor, administrator of George Naylor citing and admonishing him to be and appear at a Supreme Court of the United States to be holden at Washington, on the first Monday of December next.

Now the condition of the above obligation is such that if the said Susan Vigel shall prosecute her writ to effect, and answer all damages and costs if she fails to make her plea good, then the above obligation to be null and void otherwise to be and remain in full force and virtue in law

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M Blair (seal)
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Signed Sealed & Delivered in the presence of Chs. McNamee

approved
Jas. Dunlop