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      never yet returned any Answer thereto it plainly appearing to Lib. X.

      him that the said Good is much Countenanced in that Gov

      ernmt

       And that he sees great Occasion to have an hundred men

      kept out on Wiccocomico & Potomack Shoar in this Province

      & two Sloops with an Officer & twenty men in each of them

      to lye in that River to prevent any ill Attempt by Good or

      others

       Proposed that a Letter be writ to his Excellency the Gov- p. 53

      ernor of Virginia that in Case Sly or Cood be in his Govern

      ment to have them Apprehended & Delivered to this Gov

      ernment & that he will now issue his Proclamations to the

      Several Sheriffs of that Colony to take them and deliver them

      to this Government Otherwise if any Misfortune or Prejudice

      should happen for want thereof it cannot but be imputed to

      him.

                  [Naval Officers' Bond.]

                                    June 30, 1698.

       Maryland ss Noverint Univrsi p prsentes nos Edwardum

      Batson, Richardum Marsham & Ninian Beale genrsos teneri

      et firmiter Obligari honbus Comissbus Customar in Anglia pro

      tempore prsente in plen et Just Suma duar Mill Librar bone et

      Legalis Monet Angliae Solvend eisd Combus aut Suis Certis

      Attornat Vel assignat Suis ad quamquid Solutionem bene et

      fidlr faciend Obligamus Nos et quembet. nriim p Se pro toto

      et in Solido hered Exores & Admres nros firmtr. p prsentes

      Sigillis nris Sigillat Dat apud Port Annapolis 30 die Junij

      Ano Regni Supra dicto Gulielmi 3tis Dei Gratia Angliae Scotia

      ffranciae et Hiberniae Regis &c 100 Annoq dmi 1698

       The Condition of this Obligation is such that whereas the

      above bounden Edward Batson is by his Excy ffrancis Nicholson

      Esqr Capt gen” and Governr in Chiefe in & over his Matys

      Province of Maryland and the Territorys thereto belonging

      Appointed and Comissionated to be Navall Officer of the

      Porte of Annapolis according to the direction of a Certeine

      Act of Parliamt Entituled An Act for incouragemt of Trade

      made in the fifteenth year of the reigne of our late Sovereigne

      Lord King Charles the Second of blessed memory now if so

      be the said Edward Batson shall well and faithfully pforme p. 211

      his duty in the said Office in all things thereto relateing Then

      this Obligacon to be voyd and of none effect or else the same

      to be and remaine in full force and Virtue.

        Sealed and delivered in         E. Batson  [Seal]

      the prsence of           Rich Marsham[Seal]

       Hen. Jowles             Ninian Beal  [Seal]

       Thomas Tench

       Richard Hill