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Oregon Territory ) Polk County p. )

On this 6th day of April A. D. 1853 Before the undersigned personally appeared Robin Holmes and being by me first duly sworn says that the statements and facts in the foregoing affidavit are true to the best of his knowledge and belief.

Filed in open Court this 6th day of April A. D. 1853.

J. E. LYLE, Clerk, Subscribed and Sworn to before me.

J. E. LYLE, Clerk,

Dist. Court E

[ENDORSED]

Filed in open Court this 6th day of April A. D. 1853.

J. E. LYLE, Clerk.

Know all men by these presents that we Nathaniel Ford as principle and as surity are held and firmly bound unto Robin Holmes of Polk County Oregon Territory in the penal sum of three thousand dollars, to the payment of which will are truly to be made we bind ourselves our heirs executors and administrators firmly by these presents

The conditions of this Bond is such that, whereas a writ of Habeas Corpus, was sent out of the District Court of said County by said Holmes and issued to said Ford to bring up the bodies of three children named in said writ, the children of the said Holmes, and whereas said cause has this day been continued by said Court, and ordered that said children remain in the hands of said Court, till the further order of said Court, and that said Ford with good security give bond in the sum of Three thousand dollars to keep said children within the jurisdiction and subject to the order of the Court, and surrender them up if the Court so order. Now if the said Ford do not remove the said children nor either of them from said jurisdiction of said Court, and if the said Court order him to deliver them up to the said Holmes, and he the said Ford do deliver them up, and obey the order of the Court then this bond to be null and void, otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.

NATHANIEL FORD Seal.