Know all Men by these Presents that I John Brown of Providence in the County of Providence in the Colony of Rhode Island &c Merchant am held and firmly bound unto Joseph Clarke Esqr General Treasurer of the Colony aforesaid in the Sum of Five Hundred Pounds lawful Money of the said Colony to be paid to the said Joseph Clarke in his said Capacity for the Use of the Colony or to his Successors in said Office; to which Payment well and truly to be made I bind myself my Heirs Executors & Administrators firmly by these Presents. Sealed with my Seal Dated the Twentieth Day of January in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Six.

Whereas the said John Brown hath imported into the said Colony a Quantity of Powder and warlike Stores amounting to Eight Hundred and Thirty four Pounds 5/ and in Consequence of a Resolution of the Continental Congress of tho 15th of July last for the Encouragement of the Importation of Powder hath equipped the Brige Sally Sylvanus Jenckes Master with a Cargo for Surinam but hath put on board Goods to the Amount of Two Hundred and Forty six Pounds 11/7 more than the Value of the warlike Stores so imported; and whence pursuant to said Resolution and of an Act of the General Assembly of the said Colony the said Sylvanus Jenckes hadth received Permission from the Honble Nicholas Cooke Esqr Governor of said Colony to proceed to Surinam in the said Brigt with the said Cargo: Now the Condition of this Obligation is such that if the said Sylvanus Jenckes shall in all Things during his said Voyage conform himself to the Rules of the Continental Congress and shall lay out such a Proportion of the Neat Proceeds of his Cargo as the said sum of Two Hundred and Forty six Pounds 11/7 bears to the Sum of One Thousand and Eighty Pounds 16/7 (the whole Amount of his Cargo) in Powder Salt petre Small Arms Sulphur, Duck, Ozenbrigs or Ticklenburgh, giving the Preference to Powder, Saltpetre & Small Arms and import the same into this or some other of the United Colonies, and lodging within Three Days after his Arrival in this Colony proper Certificates in the Secretary's Office (the Danger of the Sea and Seizure by an Enemy always excepted) then this Obligation shall be void or else in full Force.

Sealed and delivered
in the Presence of
Henry Ward William Mumford