24 Kent County Court Proceedings, 1648-1656.





        Liber A    Concernes the due Administration of Justice, and Right, the Exe
              cution of lawes upon delinquents and the lawfull and necessary usse
              of the Militia Requiringe the people of the sayd Countie to bee
              subject to all his lawifull Comaunds, And aliso wee doe by these
              prsents Nominate and appoint, mr Joseph Weeckes, mr Tho: Ringold
              mr Thomas Hinson, mr Jn° Russell, mr Henery Morgan, mr Wm
              Eliot, & mr Henery Canine, to bee Commitioners for the sayd
              County of Kent Assistant to the sayd mr Phillip Conier (who is
              heareby appointed President of the Comition) for the Conseruation
              of the peace, Administration of Justice, and Right Executinge of
              Judgment to all psons indiferently, in all Causses, of which the
              shall bee allowed Capable to haue Cognizance, and for the ptsent
              as the haue formerly done, untill further order bee published And
              that any foure of the sayd Comitioners wheareof mr Phillip Conier,
              or mr Joseph Weeckes, or mr Tho: Ringgold, or mr Tho: Hinson, to
              bee allways one, shall haue power to keepe Courts, at such times and in
              such places, as to them shall seeme Conuenient and necessary, And
              that all writts, proces, warrants supenas &c which concerne the
              County Court, shall bee signed by the sayd mr Phillip Conier, hut
              in his absence by mr Joseph weeckes and uppon extrordinarie or
              sudden ocation, which Concernes the saftie of the County, pruentinge
              or supressinge of any dangerous action, the nearest Comissioner
              shall haue power to giue out a warrant directed to the sheriffe or
              Constable, and in Casse of Extremitie depute one to serue the same,
              And lastly the sayd mr Phillip Conier, and the sayd Comissioners
              are Required to Cause the Clark of theire Court, to transcribe the
              Court pssedings and to deliü them to the Secretarie of the Prouince,
              euery six Months, at the Generall Prouinciall Court, Giuen at
              Prouidence under my hand the first day of March 1654:
              Copia Vera testis               Will Fuller
                 me Clar Com                  William Durand
                 Kent Tho: Hill:

       [101. g8J To all the Free subiects of the Comonwealth of England Dwellingc
               in the Prouince of Maryland our louinge Freinds and neighbors
               Whereas by the Supreame Authority of the Cothonwealth of
              England this Prouince is reduced to the obedience of the sayd
              Comonwealth, by a Speciall power Cothitted to the Honourable
              Ritchard Bennett Esquir Gouenor of virginia, and Colonell Wm
              Claiborne, and Capt Edmund Curtis Comaunder of the Ginny
              Frigate a man of warre sett forth by the Comonwealth for that
              purpose as is aparantly knowne, to all the people of this Prouince
              and an engagement tacken by the sayd people to bee obedient
              thearunto Which power of the sayd Comissioners and reducement
              of this Prouince thearunto hath been Confirmed by the aforesayd
              Supreame Authoritie under theire hand and Sealles to the sayd