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Hays, John Peddycoat, John Wood, Thomas Hill, Clarina Gilly,
John Glassington, and Avinio Butler, shall deliver up and surren-
der, or cause to be delivered up and surrendered to the Sheriffs of
St. Mary's, Anne-Arundel, Baltemore, Talbot, and Calvert Counties
aforesaid, in the Presence of Two Justices of the Peace in each of
the said Counties, whom the said Sheriffs are hereby required to
summon on the Request of the said William Maria Farthing, John
Conoway, William Jones, John Cook, Samuel Glover, Lawrence
Hays, John Peddycoat, John Wood, Thomas Hill, Clarina Gilly,
John Glassington, and Avinio Butler, at the Dwelling, Plantations,
or Places of Abode of the said William Maria Farthing,. John Cono-
way, William Jones, John Cook, Samuel Glover, Lawrence Hays,
John Peddycoat, John Wood, Thomas Hill, Clarina Gilly, John
Glassington, and Avinio Butler, at some convenient Time before
the Twentieth Day of December next, all their real and personal
Estate, either in Possession, Reversion, or Remainder; or in Trust,
or in or unto which they have, or any or either of them hath any
Claim or Interest whatsoever; and do likewise, by the Day before-
mentioned, convey, assign, transfer, and make over unto the said
Sheriffs of St. Mary's, Anne-Arundel, Baltemore, Talbot, and Cal-
vert Counties, for the Use of their said Creditors, all such their
Estate, Interest, or Claim as aforesaid; after such Manner as by
the said Sheriff, and the major Part of the said Creditors, or of
such of them as shall think fit to direct therein, or their Council
learned in the Law, shall reasonably devise or require, at the Costs
and Charges of such Persons, as shall claim the Benefit thereof;
so as the said William Maria Farthing, John Conoway, William
Jones, John Cook, Samuel Glover, Lawrence Hays, John Peddy-
coat, John Wood, Thomas Hill, Clarina Gilly, John Glassington,
and Avinio Butler, be not burthened with any Warrantees thereby,
other than from themselves, or those that claim by, from, or under
them; and that the said William Maria Farthing, John Conoway,
William Jones, John Cook, Samuel Glover, Lawrence Hays, John
Peddycoat, John Wood, Thomas Hill, Clarina Gilly, John Glass-
ington, and Avinio Butler, and either of them at the Time of such
their Surrender, and transferring their Estate as aforesaid, shall
take his or their solemn Oath, or Oaths, or Test, before the said
Two Justices of the respective Counties aforesaid, so to be sum-
moned as aforesaid, to the Effect following, viz.
" I A. B. do solemnly swear, That the Goods, Debts, and Effects,
" which I have delivered, assign'd, and made over to the Sheriff of
" County, and in Trust for the Use of my Creditors, is
" the whole Estate, both Real and Personal, of my own in Posses-
" sion, or have any Title to in the World: And that I have not any
" Estate, Goods, or Effects of any kind whatsoever left, either in
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