State of Tennessee }
Lawrence County }

Know all these men by these presents that we hereby bind ourselves unto the State of Tennessee in the sum of five hundred dollars for the payment
whereof we hereby bind ourself our heirs & personal representative witness our hand and seal, this the 2^nd day of July 1860.

        The condition if the above obligation is such that where as on the first Monday in June 1860 Hugh Gardner a free person of color filed his petition in the County Court of Lawrence County to be Registered as required by law and the cost being satisfied that said Hugh Gardner was born free, and is a resident of said County of Lawrence and as such free person of Color is entitled to be registered in said County of Lawrence, and to have issues to him a certificate of freedom, upon his executing bond as required by law. Now therefore if the said Hugh Gardner should conduct himself properly, and should not become a charge upon said County of Lawrence for his susport and maintainance there the above obligation is to be void, but should he become a County charge, then the above obligation is to be in full force and effect, this the day of date above written.