John M. Phillips and Sarah Lewallen

STATE OF TENNESSEE, SCOTT COUNTY.
To any Minister of the Gospel having the care of Souls, or to any Judge, Chancellor, or Justice of the Peace of said County -- Greating:
You, or either of You, Are hereby authorized to solemnize the RITES OF MATRIMONY between John M. Phillips and Sarah Lewallen of our County, agreeably to the direction of the Act of Assembly in such case made and provided; PROVIDED ALWAYS, that the Rite of Matrimony be solemnized in this County; otherwise these shall be null and void, and shall not be accounted any License or authority to you, or either of you, for the purpose aforesaid, more than though the same had never been prayed or granted, etc.
Given at the Clerk's Office of said County, this 30th day of January 1881.
J.C. Parker; D, County Court Clerk.

Know all Men, That we, John M. Phillips and Moses Sexton Security of the County of Scott, and State of Tennessee, are held and firmly bound unto the State of Tennessee, in the sum of Twelve Hundred and Fifty Dollars, to which payment, well and truly to be made, we bind our heirs, executors and administrators, and each and every one of us and them, both jointly and severally, firmly by these presents.
Witness our hands and seals, the 30th day of January 1881.
The Condition of the above Obligation is such, THAT WHEREAS, John M. Phillips hath prayed and obtained License to marry Sarah Lewallen
Now, if there shall not hereafter appear any lawful cause why the said John M. Phillips and Sarah Lewallen should not be joined together in Holy Matrimony as Husband and Wife, then this obligation to be void and of no effect; otherwise to remain in full force and virtue.
John M. Phillips
MS Sector (sic)
I solemnized the Rites of Matrimony between the within named parties on the 30th day of January 1881
JT Phillips JP