Greene County, NC - Military - Impressant Act

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The Confederate States of America
State of North Carolina

Know all men by these presents That we Jesse Hartt as principal of the County 
of Green in said State and William Coward and William J. Pope as surities of 
the County of Green - in said State are held and fairly bound unto the Confederate 
States of America in the penal sum of Twenty five thousand dollars to be paid to 
the said Conferate States of America, for which payment well and truly to be made 
and done, We bind our selves, and each of us, our heirs, executors and 
administrators, Jointly and severally, firmly by these presents sealed with 
our seals and dated this the 10th day of May in the year of our lord one 
thousand eight hundreds and sixty four, Whereas the above bound Jesse Hartt 
principal has applied for option or detail as an agriculturalist under the 
act of Congress approved 17th February 1864, entitled An act to organise for 
us to serve during the war, these being upon the farm or plantation of the 
said Jesse Hartt - for which exception or detail is sought fourteen able bodied 
slaves within the making of said and which application is to be granted upon 
the satisfactory execution of this Bond
     Now the condition of this obligation is such that if duly autherized 
officer or agent of the Confederate States at Snow Hill or other station agreed 
upon, or at such other place as may be directed by the Secretary of War or his 
duly authorized offices or agent, within twelve months from this date hereof 
     Bacon or at the election of the general do equivalant in pork and _____               
pounds of net beef (said beef to be delivered on foot, to be paid for by the 
government at the prices fixed by the Commissioner of the state, under the 
impressant act, And shall sell the marketable Surplus of provisions and grain 
now on hand, and which he may raise from year to year while this exeption 
continues, to the government or to the families of Soldiers, at prices not 
exceeding the prices fixed by the commission of the state, under the impressant 
act, and shall in all other respects faithfully conform to the requisitions of 
the said act under which the said Jesse Hartt is exempted, according to the 
true intent and meaning thereof he being entitled to the communtation therein 
provided, upon compliance with the terms thereof, then this obligation to be 
void and of no effect or else to remain in full force and virtue.

                                                  Jessee Hartt  (seal)
                                                  Wm Coward  (seal)
Signed sealed and deliv'd                         W. J. Pope  (seal)
       presence of                         
Acknowledged in the presents  
of Joseph Dixon, J. P.

On reverse:  Jesse Hartts Bond.  $25000
Source:  Military Collection, Quartermaster Department (Misc.).  Box 34.  
Folder:  Quartermaster Contracts & Bonds.

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