370 MARYLAND COURT OF APPEALS

Ninety one pounds of Tobacco yet remainds [570] wholly unpaid to the said
Philemon Lloyd Esq^r or Order, And the said Attorney Gen^H further sayth
that afterwards to Witt the tenth day of December Anno Domi. Seventeen
hundred and thirteen he the said Philemon at Charles County af^d did intrust
the said Thomas Dent as Sherriff af^d with Sundry other fees due unto him
the said Philemon by Occasion of his said Office of Deputy Secretary af^d from
sundry other persons living in Charles County af^d to be by him the said
Thomas Dent Sherriff as af^d Collected and Accounted for according to his
the said Thomas Dents Duty as Sherriff and the Condition af^d Amounting
to the sum of twenty thousand and Seven hundred and two pounds of To-
bacco and the said Atfny further saith that the said Thomas Dent hath not
past any Account of the said Fees to the said Philemon Lloyd Esq^r nor paid
him the said Philemon the Tobacco that arose due on the said List according
to the Duty of his Office af^d and the form of the Condition af^d but as well the
said Twenty thousand Seven hundred and two pounds of Tobacco last Men-
tioned as the aforementioned Nineteen thousand Eight hundred Ninety One
pounds of Tobacco in the Whole amounting to forty thousand five hundred
and Ninety three pounds of Tobacco Yet remaining due and Wholly unpaid
to the said Philemon or Order And this the said Attorney Gen^ll is ready to
verifie Wherefore for the said Lord the King he prays Judgment for the
Debt af^d and the Damages by Occasion of Detaining the same Debt to the
said Lord the King to be Adjudged etc:

And the said William Stone as to the Severall fees and Dues in the plea
af^d mentioned amounting to the sum of Nineteen thousand Eight hundred
and Ninety One pounds of Tobacco Saith that the said Philemon Lloyd
Esq^r in the plea af^d mentioned did not intrust the said Thomas Dent with
the Collection thereof and of this he puts himself upon the Country. And
the plantiff likewise. And as to the Residue of the Plea af^t by Replication
above pleaded the said William saith that the same is not Sufficient in Law
for the said Attorney Generall the Action af^d against him to have or main-
tain and that he to the Residue of that plea hath no need nor by the Law of
the Land is held to Answer and this he is ready to Verifie and therefore for
want of a Sufficient Plea in this part [571] he prays Judgment that the said
Attorney Gen^a from having and maintaining the Action af^t against him be
precluded etc.

And the said Attorney Gen^ll of the s^d Lord Proprietor for the said Lord
the King for that he hath above Alledged Sufficient Matter in Law in the
Replication af^d to have and maintain the Action af^d which he is ready to
verifie which matter the same William Stone hath not Gainsayd nor there-
unto any ways answered but the same Averment to Admit doth altogether
refuse, The same Attorney Gen^tt as before prays Judgment for the Debt af^d
and the Damage by Occasion of Detaining the same Debt to the said Lord
the King to be Adjudged etc: