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June Court 1763 224 Horatio Sharpe Esqr. Lieutenant General and Chief Governor of our Said Province of Maryland the Eighth day of June in the thirteenth Year of our Dominion &c. Annoque Domini 1763 Horatio Sharpe {Seal} On the Back of the foregoing Commission was as follows Vizt. Maryland fst Frederick Absolute Lord and Proprietary of the Provinces of Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &c. To Benedict Calvert Robert Jenkins Henry Daniel Dulany Stephen Bordly John Ridout and Charles Goldsborough Esquires Thomas Jones, John Dennis, Thomas Holbrook, Planner Williams William Adams, David Polk Thomas Moor and Isaiah Tilman of Somerset County Gentlemen Greeting we do hereby Authorise and Impower you or Either of you to Administer the Severall Oaths Appointed by Act of Assembly to be taken to the Government as also the Oath of Judge or Justice to Benjamin Tasker Charles Hammond Samuel Chamberlain Edward Lloyd and Richard Lee Esqrs. William Hayward Sampson Wheatly, Joseph Gillis Samuel Adams William Winder, Ephraim Wilson and Ephraim King of the Same County Gentlemen or Any of them and you the Said Benjamin Tasker Charles Hammond Samuel Chamberlain Edward Lloyd Richard Lee William Hayward Sampson Wheatly Joseph Gillis Samuel Adams William Winder Ephraim Wilson and Ephraim King or Any of you haveing taken the Said Oath are hereby Impowered to Administer the Same to the Jsutices and Commissioners Respectively as they are Nominated in the within Commission and we will that you and Every of you haveing taken the Said Oaths do Severally Subscribe the test and Oath of Abjuration and for So doing this Shall be your Sufficient Warrant and Authority hereof fail not and when you have So done you are to Certifie the Same under your hands And Seals to us in our high Court of Chancery with all Convenient Speed Wittness Our trusty and well beloved Horatio Sharpe Esqr Lieutenant General and Chief Governor of our Said Province of Maryland this Eighth day of June in the thirteenth year of our Dominion &c. Annoque Dom. 1763 Horatio Sharpe {Great Seal} Which being Read and heard Thereupon Thomas Jones Pursuant to the dedimus to him directed Administred the Severall Oaths Appointed by Act of Assembly to be taken to the Government as also the Oath of Judge or Justice to William Hayward, Sampson Wheatly, Joseph Gillis William Winder and Ephraim King who Severally took the Same and Repeated the test and Subscribed the Same with the Oath of Abjuration Thereupon Sampson Wheatly Administred the Same Oaths to Thomas Jones, John Dennis, Thomas Holbrook, Planner Williams, William Adams, David Polk, Thomas Moor and Isaiah Tilman who Severally took the Same and Repeated the test and Subscribed the Same with the Oath of Abjuration and took their Places on the bench as follows Vizt
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