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tary of the Province of Maryland in the Sum of Five Thousand
Pounds of Good Sound Merchantable Leaf Tobacco in Cask to be
paid Edmund Jenings his Executors Administrators and Assigns
to the which payment well and truly to be made I do hereby bind
myself my Heirs Executors Administrators and Assigns by these
Presents Sealed with my Seal and dated this eighth day of May
1739
The Condition of the Above Obligation is such that if the Above
Bound A: B: do and shall from Time to Time pay or cause to be
paid to the Above named Edmund Jenings his Executors Adminis-
trators or Assigns all Fees which shall be due to the said Edmund
Jenings as Secretary of this Province in a cause between the said
A B Plaintiff and C. D. Defendant now depending in the Provincial
Court according to the Regulation made by the Right Honourable
the Lord Proprietary in Council the fourteenth day of April 1733
on or before the tenth day of May after the same shall be demanded
then the above Obligation to be void otherwise to Remain in full
force and Virtue in Law. But if default be made in the payment of
the said fees or any part thereof on or before the time aforesaid
than I Impower any Attorney in any Court of Record in this
Province to appear for me at the Suit of the Above named Edmund
Jenings his Executors Administrators or assigns and to receive a
Declaration on the above Obligation and thereupon to Confess Judg-
ment by Nil dicit Cognovit Actionem non sum Informatus or other-
wise hereby releasing all the Errors that may happen in the said
Judgment suing out Execution thereupon or in any of the proceed-
ings thereunto relating.
Sealed and Delivered in the Presence of G. H.
A: B (Seal)
Your Committee beg leave further to Inform your House that the
said Clerk of the said Office in Pursuance of a Request from your
said Committee did shew unto them the Journals of the Assembly
Lodged with him and which your Committee do find in very great
disorder but do conceive the same may proceed from the disorderly
State of the Office in General the Books Records and papers being
removed on Repairing the Stadt House
That Your Committee do not find any Journals of Your Honour-
able House in the said office beyond the Year of our Lord 1688
That your Committee have also inspected the Land Office and
find that the said Office is at present in disorder Occasioned by the
Repair of the Stadt House and Offices the Books and papers being
removed to the Repository but your Committee having examined
the Clerk of the said Office as to the manner of Charging his Fees
he made Answer that the Fees of the Office were charged by a
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