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Dorchester County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1852-1860
Volume 805, Page 176   View pdf image
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from an hour before to an hour after day light for the residue of the year commencing
the tenth of May 1855 and ending twelve months thereafter and shall keep constantly
and in good order a Scow that will safely carry three passangers and their
horses at one trip with an able bodies and skillfuil hand to attend the said ferry
and shall not Charge or receive any greater prices for Services than what is allowed
by law then the above obligation to be void otherwise of force and virtue in law
Signed sealed and delivered                                             Thomas J. Simmons     (seal)
       in the presence of                                                      Washington A. Smith   (seal)
                      James Smith                                                   Thomas Abbott       (seal)

By the County Commissioners      Dorchester County
                                                                June 26 1855
This Bond approved by order
                                              Test               William Rea clerk C. D. C.


State of Maryland      Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that the following
       √   from   xd       Bond was received and recorded on the 14th day of August
William Pickering      in the year of our Lord One thousand Eight hundred
& others                   and Fifty five, to wit:
                                        Know all men by these Presents That we William
Pickering William A. Shearman and Thomas Thomas of Dorchester County are held
and firmly bound unto the State of Maryland in the full and just Sum of
three hundred dollars Current money of the united States to be paid to the said state
or its certain attorney to the which payment well and truly to be made and done,
we bind ourselves our heirs executors and administrators in the whole and for
the whole jointly and Severally firmly by these presents, sealed with our Seals
and dated this Nineth day of May eighteen hundred and fifty five  Whereas
the Commissioners for Dorchester County by virtue of Supplement to an Act entitled
an additional Supplement to the act entitled an act to regulate ferries have contracted
with the Said William Pickering to keep the ferry over the north west
fork of the Nanticoke River Commonly called the crotchers ferry and agree to
allow the Said William Pickering the Sum of Two hundred dollars Current
money for the Same      Now the Condition of the above obligation is such that
if the above bounden William Pickering shall faithfully and diligently keep the
said ferry from day light to day light from the first of march and from
an hour before to an hour after day light for the residue of the year commencing
on the tenth day of May 1855 and ending twelve months thereafter and Shall
Keep Constantly and in good order a Scow that will Safely carry Six passangers
and their horses at one trip with an able bodies and Skillful hand to attend
the ferry afsd. and Shall not Charge or receive any greater prices for ferriage than
what is allowed by law      Then the above obligation to be void otherwise of
full force and virtue in law                                        his
signed sealed and delivered                          William x Pickering   (seal)
       in the presence of                                            mark
                      A. T. Wheatley                      W.m A. Sherman       (seal)
                                                                    Thos. Thomas           (seal)



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