STATE OF ARKANSAS
County of Arkansas

Know All Men by These Presents: THAT WE G.R. Hughes as principal, and W.T. Jones as security, are held and firmly bonded unto the State of Arkansas for the use and benefit of the Common School Fund of Arkansas County, in the penal sum of One Hundred Dollars for the payment of which well and truly to be made, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executives and administrators, firmly by these presents.

.....Signed this 23rd day of Oct 1895.

.....THE CONDITION of the above obligation is such, that whereas, the above bounder G.R. Hughes has this day applied to the Clerk of the County Court of Arkansas County for a license authorizing the solemnization of the Rite of Matrimony between the said G.R. Hughes and Miss M.J. McNamary

.....Now, if the said parties applying for said licnese have a lawful right to the same, and if they shall faithfully carry into effect and comply with the provisions thereof, and shall, within sixty days from the date hereof, return the said license to the office of the Clerk of the County Court of said County, duly executed and officially signed by some one authorized by law to solemnize the Rite of Matrimony, then this obligation to be void; but otherwise to remain in full force and virtue. Witness our signatures the day above written.

Filed 23rd day of Oct 1895. Recorded 23rd day of Oct 1895. J.W. Crocket, Clerk

(A hand written note is over area of the license that states "October 22. Mr G.R. Hughes and Miss M.J. McNamary had come to the idea of Matrimony. i as her father and her Mother has no objections. J.L.McNamary and E.B. McNamary)

STATE OF ARKANSAS
County of Arkansas

To Any Pers (this area is covered by the above mentioned note) ing:
..... YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED TO SOLEMNIZE THE RITE AND PUBLISH THE BANS OF MATRIMONY: Between Mr. G.R. Hughes of Ark. Post in the county of Arkanssas and said State of Arkansas aged 28 years and Miss M.J. McNamary of Ark Post in the County of Arkansas in the State of Arkansas aged 16 years, according to law, and do you officiallly sign and return the license to the parties herein named.

..... WITNESS My hand and official seal, this 23rd day of October 1895. J.W. Crocket, Clerk.

CERTIFICATE OF MARRIAGE

STATE OF ARKANSAS
County of Arkansas
..... I, A.N. Best, a Justice of the Peace do hereby certify that on the 24th day of October A.D. 1895, did duly and according to law, as commanded in the foregoing license, solemnize the Rite and Publish the Rite of Matrimony between the parties therein named.

Signed: A.N. Best JP

..... The above License and Certificate were filed for record in my office on the 8th day of November 1895 and duly recorded _2th day of November 1895.

Signed: J.W. Crocket, County Clerk
............E.B. Gibson, D.C.
(Source: Transcribed from photo copy of original document.)