Captain's Bond, Colonel James M. CORNS

Confederate States of America
Commonwealth of Virginia


Book F page 299, Wayne County Courthouse, Wayne Co., WV.
James M. CORMS, Captain's Bond

Know all men by these presents that we:

James M. CORNS, Rufus P. DROWN, Joseph M. FERGUSON, James H. DAVIS, John B.
SMITH, William WALKER, Joseph WORKMAN, David C. CCANNADY; are held and
firmly bound unto the Commonwealth of Virginia in just and full sum two
thousand five hundred dollars, lawful money of the United States to be
levied and made of our respective goods and chatels, lands and tenants to
the use of the said commonwealth sealed with our seals and dated this 1st
day of January 1861. The condition of the above obligation is such that
where as James M. CORNS has been duly elected, commisioned and qualified the
Captain of a company of volunteers Riflemen in the 167th  Regiment of the
Virginia Militia and is desirathe to obtain and has applied for the issue of
the necessary arms, accounterments and equipments for said Company in
conformity with the laws of this Commonwealth. Now therefore if the said
James M. CORNS, commandant as aforesaid shall not deliver to any member of
his Company any arms, equipments or accounterments until such member shall
execute Bonds with good and sufficient sureity for the preservation and
return thereof where demanded, then this bond or obligation to be void,
otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.
Joseph WORKMAN
William WALKER
James M. CORNS
Rufus P. DROWN
J.M.FERGUSON
Jas. H. DAVIS
John B. SMITH
David C. CANNADY

Virginia Wayne County to wit:

I Washington ADKINS, clerk of the county court for the county of Wayne and
state aforesaid do hereby certify that this day, James M. CORNS, Rufus P.
DROWN, Joseph M. FERGUSON, James H. DAVIS, John B. SMITH, William WALKER,
Joseph WORKMAN and David CANNADY, who have signed the writing here unto
annexed and whose signature appear thereunder baring date on the 1st day of
January, in the year 1861, personally appeared before me in the county
aforesaid and acknowledged the said writing to be their act and deed severly
and undividably, and I further certify that the said parties who have signed
and acknowledged the said writing are good and sufficient for the payment of
the sum therein specified and for the performance in every respect of the
obligation and conditions of the said writing. Given under my hand this 1st
day of January in the year 1861.
Washington ADKINS Clk.
Virginia, Wayne County Court Clerk's Office;
January 1st,1861. This Bond of James M. CORNS & others was this day
presented to me together with the certificate of acknowledgement thereof and
the same is admitted to record.
J.C.WHEELER Deputy
for W. ADKINS Clerk

Submitted by Diana Kinzer Heath <Angel329@prodigy.net>

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