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being of the Councill) to Be Sheriff and Coroner of the County
who Shall execute or cause or oversee the execution of all
Writts and warrants to him directed and Shall in all things
have the like power and authority and Shall be chargeable
with the same duty and Office within the County as a
Sherrif or Coroner of any Shire in England usually hath or
ought to have or is or may be charged with by the law or
Custome of England And if any person so appointed shall
refuse to Serve in the said Office he Shall forfeit and lose
to the Lord Proprietarie two thousand weight of Tobacco
And the said Sherrif Shall chuse one of his Servants (& in
case he hath no Servant to accept thereof the Leiutenant
Generall and Councill shall appoint some person) for the
execution of all corporall corection shame or other punish-
ment to be inflicted on the Body or pson of any one and if the
person so chosen and appointed by the Leiutenant Generall and
Councell shall refuse to Execute the said Office the Leiutenant
Generall upon complaint thereof made unto him shall or may
censure the person so refuseing by Corporall shame or correc-
tion as be shall think fitt
And the said Constable and tithman so to be appointed as
aforesaid shall take an oath before the Commander of the
hundred or otherwise before the cheif Judge of the County
Court and the said Sherif and Coroner shall likewise take an
oath before the Judge faithfully and dilligently to execute the
said offices of tithman Constable or Sherrif and Coroner and
to make true returne of all precepts writs and Warrants to
them directed for the year next following This Act to con-
tinue till the end of the next Generall Assembly
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