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being for all the fines forfeiturs and other dues belonging to the said late
lady the Queen and her Governour and also his Account of all fees dues and
other summs of money or Tobacco for levyes or fees due to any officer or
other the good people of this Province that did require the same did pass
an Account of before the tenth day of April in the Condition of the Writing
af^d mentioned (to wit,) at Charles County af^d and in all other things as
Sherriff of Charles County aforesaid did behave himself well and honestly
towards all people according to the best of his Power skill and knowledge And
the said William further sayth that the said Thomas Dent hath well and
truely Observed performed fullfilled and kept all and Singular the Articles
Conditions Clauses and things in the Condition of the said writing Specified
on his part to be Observed and kept and [569] this he is ready to verifie and
therefore he prays Judgm^t if the said Thomas Bordley Esq^r the said Action
against him to have or maintain ought etc;

And the said Attorney Gen^ll of the said Lord Proprietor for the said
Lord the King saith that by any thing prealledged from maintaining the
Action af^d he ought not to be barred because protesting that the said Thomas
Dent hath not Observed performed fullfilled or kept any the Articles Condi-
tions Clauses or things in the Condition af^d Specified for Plea he saith that
the said Thomas Dent continued Sherriff of Charles County after the thir-
teenth day of August Anno Domi Seventeen hundred and twelve in the Plea
af^d mentioned to Witt untill the twenty sixth day of June Anno Domi Seven-
teen hundred and fourteen at Charles County af^d And the said Attorney Gen^ll
further sayth that on the thirteenth day of August Anno Domi Seventeen
hundred and twelve, af^d and long before a Certain Philemon Lloyd of Queen
Anns County Esq^r was and ever after untill the tenth day of July Anno Domi
Seventeen hundred and fourteen hath Continued One of her said Late
Majestys Officers Viz^t Deputy Secretary of State within this Province to Witt
at Charles County And the said Attorney Gen^ll further sayth that the said
Philemon Lloyd Esq^r did intrust the said Thomas Dent Sherriff af^a with
sundry Fees due unto him the said Philemon Lloyd Esq^r by Occasion of the
Office of Deputy Secretary as af^d from sundry persons living in Charles
County af^d to be by him the said Thomas Dent Sherriff af^d Collected and Ac-
counted for according to his the said Thomas Dents his Duty of Sherriff and
the Condition af^d amounting in the Whole to the sum of Nineteen thousand
Eight hundred Ninety one pounds of Tobacco to Witt on the tenth day of
December Anno Domi Seventeen hundred and twelve af^d at Charles County
af^d And the said Attorney Gen^ll further Saith that the said Thomas Dent hath
not past Account of the said Fees to the said Philemon Lloyd Esq^r as af^d by
the tenth day of April then next following the Date of the said Writing
Obligatory nor paid the Tobacco due on the said List to the said Philemon
Lloyd Esq^r or Order according to the Duty of his Office and the forme of
the Condition af^d but the same Nineteen thousand Eight hundred and