102 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1667-75.

Liber A. M.

Petitioned this Board for pay due to the said Black in the
hands of the Sheriff of Baltimore
It is Ordered by this Board that the Sheriff of Baltimore

County do pay unto the said Emanuel Ratcliffe the Tobacco
that remaineth in his hands due to the Sawyers that worked
upon the Fort the whole sum at first allotted them being four
thousand seven hundred and two pounds of Tobacco
And the Clerk of the Council is hereby Ordered before he
deliver the Copy of this Order to the said Ratcliffe to take
Bond of the said Ratcliffe and one sufficient security in the
sum of Eight Thousand Pounds of Tobacco upon Condition
that if any other Person shall afterwards appear that makes
appear any right or Interest to any part of the said Tobacco
allotted to the Sawyers as aforesaid that then the said Ratcliffe
his heirs Ex^rs or Adm^rs shall satisfy such Person or Persons
their just dues out of the same

The writt of scire facias directed to the Sheriff of S^t Marys
County to make known unto Iohn Pile of Saint Marys County
to appear this day before the Board to shew Cause why his
Lordships Grant of Land to the said Pile in his Mannor of
Choptico being taken up Contrary to his Lordships Conditions
of Plantation should not be Vacated upon Record &c^a being
by the said Sheriff returned Executed in the presence of
Edward Clark and Ioseph Pile and the said Iohn Pile appear-

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ing before the Board this day and the Board having heard the
Allegations of the said Pyle it is by this Board Ordered that
another Scire facias issue to the Sheriff of Saint Marys County
in the form of the former to make known to the said John Pile
to be before the Iustices of the Provincial Court on the Nine-
teenth day of december next to shew Cause (if any he have)
there why his Grant aforesaid should not be Vacated upon
record and also that then he come to tryal with his said Patent
if in the Interim the said Pyle do not think fit to surrender up
his said Patent and wholly stand to the Lord Proprietaries
favour touching the same

The writt of Scire facias directed to the Sheriff of Saint Marys
County to make known unto Iohn Blomfield who intermarried
with the relict of Luke Barbor dec'd and Luke Barbor Son and
heir of the said Luke deceased to appear here this day to shew
Cause why his Lordships Grants of Land to the said Barbor de-
ceased in his mannor of Choptico being taken up Contrary to his
Conditions of Plantation should not be vacated upon Record
&c^a being by the s^d shf ret^d executed in the presence of Henry
Philips and Henry Taylor and the said John Blomfield and
Luke Barbor appearing before the Board this day and the
Board having heard what Objections they Could make it is by