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Present
His Excellency Samuel Ogle Esa^r Governor

The honble

Benjamin Tasker Esq^r
Col George Plater
Edmund Jenings Esq^r
Col Charles Hammond

Daniel Dulany Esq^r
Col Benjamin Tasker
Benedict Calvert Esq^r

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The following Depositions were returned to this Board by
the Justices of Calvert County

Calvert County ss

Ellis Slater Deputy Clerk of the County af^d answers to the
several Questions upon Oath as follows

Quest. 1^st Hath it been the Custom of the Justices of your
County to order their Clerk or his Deputy to make Returns
on Writts of Certiorari
Ans^r It has been the Practice for the Clerk to make all
Returns
2^d Did they order you to make Return on that produced
by Samuel Harrison a Wardrop & Graham last June Court
and what Return did they order thereon
Answer. They did order me to make Return on that Writt,
that because the said Wardrop and Graham by Thomas Clark
their Attorney had petitioned that a Judgment of Non pross
or discontinuance of the Action by them brought in said Court
against said Harrison with Cost might be entered against
them, that therefore It was their Opinion there was no Action
then existing between the said Parties, and therefore could
not allow of said Writt of Certiorari
3^d Why did not you make Return thereon as ordered
Answer. Because Samuel Harrison forbid me, and hindered
me therefrom, by taking the Writ into his Custody, saying
I should not, It was their Business, and if they were such fools
as not to know it, he did, He should take Care of the Writ,
and as this Respondent was told last Provincial Court, there
was no Return thereof.
4^th Did not receive you from M^r Edward Dorsey Attorney

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for M^r Onorio Razolini two declaratory Bills on two protested
Bills of Exchange with Orders to file copy and dockett the
same against Samuel Harrison Clerk of Calvert County Court
in the usual manner the Law directs
Ans^r I did and shewed them to M^r Harrison who forbid
me to do the same
5^th Did not some of the Justices of the County af^d on the
day after the Court house was burnt apply to M^r Harrison to
inspect what Damage the Records had sustained and that He
refused to suffer them so to do