Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1696/7-98. 421

     plena et Iusta Suffia duor, Mill. Libr. bone et Legalis monet. Lib. X.

     Angliae Solvend. Serenissimo Dno nro Gulielmo tertio Dci

     Gratia Angliae Scotiae ffrancae et hiberniae Regi heredibus Vel

     Successoribus Suis ad quamquid Solucone bene et fiellr faci

     end Obhigamus Nos et quembet nrüm hered Exrs & Adrnres

     nro3. ct quoslibet eorundem pro toto ct in Solido Seperatim

     & Conjunctim firmtr. per prsentes has Sigil nro Sigillat Dat

     Decimo tertio die Maij Anno Regni Dni Regis Decimo An

     noq Dni 1698

       The Condition of the above obligation is Such that Whereas

     the above bounded Samll Watkins is by his Excy ffrancis

     Nicholson Esqr his Matys Capt gen” and Govr in Chiefe in

     and over his Province of Maryland aforesd Appointed and

     Commissionated to be Navall Officer of the District of Putux

     ent in the Province of Maryland, Now if so be that the said

     Sam” Watkins shall well and faithfully Execute the said Office

     Vsuant to the Severall Acts of Trade and Navigation and

     Especially the hate Act of Parliamt made ano Septimo &

     Octavo Gulielmi Tertij Regis Entituled an Act for prventing

     frauds and Regulateing Abuses in the Plantation Trade and

     the Oath by him taken before his said Excy the Governor in

     Councill according to the directions of the said Act for the

     true and faithfull pformance of his Duty Then this Obligation

     to be Voyd otherwise to remaine in full forcc and Virtue

       Signed Sealed and delivered in the prsence of

          ffra: Nicholson     S Watkins [Seal]

          Richd Hill          Tho: Tench [Seal]

          Thomas Tasker Robert Smith [Seal]

                  [High Sheriff's Bond.]

     Maryland ss

       Know all men by these prsents that we Henry Lowe, Henry

     Iowles Esqr & William Barton in the Province aforesd gent

     are holden and firmly bounden unto his Sacred Majesty King

     William the 3d &c. in the full Sume and lust quantity of two

     hundred Thousand pounds of good Sound Merchantable

     Leafe Tobb: & Cask to be payd unto his Said Majesty his

     heires & Successors To the which paymt well and truly to be

     made we bind our Selves and either of us our & either of

     our heires Exrs and Admrs Ioyntly and Severally for the whole

     & in the whole firmly by these prsents As wittness our hands

     and Seales this Eighteenth day of May in the 10th Year of

     his Majesties Reigne &c. Anoq Dni 1698

       The Condition of the Above Obligation is Such that if the

     above bounden Henry Lowe do well and Truly Serve his

     said Majesty his heires and Successors in the Office of high

     Sherriffe of the County of St Marys within this Province and