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    this board that the same is all irregular there noc thing appeare- Lib. C. B.

    ing to this Board in the said W Randolphs Comission

    Empowering him to place or displace Officers in any of their p. 44

    Majties Governmts in these parts, but that the same wholy Iyes

    in the breast of such Governments.

      Ordered therevpon as it is hereby Ordered that the said

    Philip Clarke henceforth desist from further acting by Vertue

    of such Comission, and that linediately vpon Notice given he

    deliver vp all Papers remaining now in his custody relateing to

    the said Office of Collector Unto the aforesd George Plater,

    whoe is hereby fully Empowered to continue to Act as Col

    lector of that District according to the Tenor of his Comission

    Granted him by the Governmt Untill further Order.

    James Bigger's Mr James Biggers humbly Moveing this Board on

           behalfe of Mr Thomas Green feild who had lately

    behalfe Granted to him by the Comissary Generall of this

    Greenfeild

    p Appeale, Province Letters colligendum vpon the Estate of

    Granted &ca Richard Charlet deceased, whoe by Vertue thereof

    had made some progress & been at some Expense in the Col

    lecting part thereof according to the direction of the Law in

    that case, but by some meanes or other Letters of Administra

    tion have since been Granted to two other persons noe wayes

    Creditors, & therefore much to the prejudice, as is conceived,

    of the persons interested in the same, therefore the said Mr

    Bigger does in right of the said Mr Green feild humbly pray an

    Appeale from the sentence of the said Judge, in Order that

    the same may be duely Examined according to Law—And for p. 45.

    the due prosecution of the said Appeale the said Mr Bigger

    on behalfe of the said Thomas Greenfeild does here tender to

    this Board Mr William Parker & Mr Hugh Ellis together with

    himseife his security and at the same time came as well the

    said James Bigger whoe acknowledged himselfe to become

    bound in the sume of Two hundred Pounds & the aforesd

    William Parker & Hugh Ellis in the sume of One hundred

    pounds sterling each Vizt that if the said Thomas Greenfeild

    shall not prosecute his Appeale with Effect that he therevpon

    pay all Costs and Damages that may happen to Accrue to any

    person concerned, in case that the Sentence of the said Judge

    shall be affirmed, by reason of such his Appeale, whoe sever

    ailly consented therevnto

      Ordered therevpon as it is hereby Ordered that an imediate

    stop be put vpon the proceedings of the aforesd Administra

    tion, and that the Administratoes vpon due Notice hereof given

    them yeild all due obedience herevnto, Untill there be a full

    decision & determination in the premisses.