Know all men by these presents that W Francois
Derouin and Bernerd PrattePratte both of the county of St LouisSt Louis
and territory of MissouriMissouri an held and firmly bound
untoJohn MJohn M . ThompsonThompson sheriff of St LouisSt Louis county
or his successors in office in the first andfull
sum of five thousand dollars currency of the
United StatesUnited States to the payment of which will and
truely to be made we bind ourselves and
severally our and each of our
and firmly by these presents sealed
with our seals and signed with our hands
this eleventh day of May Eighteen hundred and fifteen

The of the above obligation
is such that whereas the aforesaid Francois DerouinFrancis De Rouin
and DennisDennis Julian have this day received a certain
of a peltry out of the lands of PatrickPatrick
Lee by virtue of a writ of
clerks office of the circuit court of St LouisSt Louisas will
more fully appear from the return as said
for it - now if the said Francois DerouinFrancis De Rouin and
DennisDennis Julian return the aforesaid property to
the said PatrickPatrick Lee if it should be adjudged
to him by the said circuit court or any other
court at any further period in as good order
as when it was when they received it and

without waste or defalcation when this obligation
to be void else to remain in full force and -
written in Law