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trators and every of them firmly by these Presents Sealed with my
Seal and dated this 31^st day of May Anno Domini 1739
The Condition of the Above Obligation is such that if the Above
Bound A B. his Heirs Executors or Administrators do and shall well
and truly pay or Cause to be paid to the Abovesaid Levin Gale his
Executors Administrators or Assigns the full and Just Sum of Five
hundred Pounds of Merchantable Leaf Tobacco at or upon the 26^th
Day of December next ensuing the date hereof then the Above Obli-
gation to be void and of none Effect otherwise to be and remain in full
Force Power and Virtue in Law but if default be made in the payment
of the aforesaid Sum of Five Hundred Pounds of Tobacco quali-
fied as aforesaid then I do hereby Impower any Attorney in any
Court of Record in the Realms of Great Britain France or Ireland
or within the Province of Maryland or other his Majestys Domin-
ions to appear for me at the Suit of the Above mentioned Levin Gale
his Executors Administrators or Assigns and to receive a Declara-
tion on the Above Obligation and thereupon to Confess Judgm^t by
Nil dicit cognovit Actionem non Sum Informatus or otherwise
hereby releasing all the Errors that may happen upon the said
Judgment suing out Execution thereupon or in any of the proceed-
ings thereunto relating.
Sealed and Delivered in the Presence of C. D.
A. B. (Seal)

L. H. J.
Lib. No. 45

Your said committee have also Inspected the State and Condition
of the Commissary Generals Office and do find so far as they could
Examine that the Wills Inventories and Accounts are Entered to
December 1738 and the Books and papers appear in good order.
Your Committee demanding by what Authority the Fees of the
said Office were Charged were answered by Virtue of a Regulation
made by his Lordships Proclamation and Enquiring further whether
they took any and what Security for fees in the said Office received
for Answer that they took none for Fees arising on the Transitory
and current Business of the Office except some times Promissory
notes but more Generally only Orders in Writing to do the particular
Business Required and that such Fees were only charged in Account
but that upon Granting of Letters Testamentary or of Administra-
tion they took Testamentary or Administration Bonds in the Condi-
tion of which Bonds among other Things Security was Included for
their Fees arising by means of the Administration or Executorship
by the following Clause and also (that the said Executor or Ad-
ministrator) shall pay all such Reasonable Charges and Fees as
have arisen or shall arise or become due to his Lordship Officers
from the said (Executor or Administrator) on account of the said
Deceased or his Estate

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