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August Court 1762 153 Out houses Contiguous to or used therewith and all trespasses Engrossings Regratings Forestallings and Extortions Whatsoever and of all other Misfeazances and Offences whatsoever of which Justices of our Peace Lawfully may or Ought to enquire by whomsoever or howsoever in our County afd. done or Committed or which may hereafter happen to be done or Committed and also of all those who in our County afd. in Riotous Manner have gone or Rode or Shall hereafter presume to go or Ride with Armed force Against our peace to the disturbance of the Kings Subjects and of all Such who in our County afd. have Lain or Shall hereafter presume to Lie in Wait to maim or kill Any of the Kings Subjects and also of all Ordinary keepers and other persons who have offended or hereafter Shall presume to offend in the Abuse of Weights or Measures Against the Acts of Assembly for the Common Good and profit now in this province made and used and also of the Sheriffs Bailifs Constables and other Officers who have or Shall hereafter misbehave themselves in the Execution of their Office or have been Remis or Negligent in the Execution thereof or Shall happen So to be within our County afd. and of all and Every the Articles Matters and things Whatsoever howsoever or by Whomsoever in our County afd. done or Committed or that Shall hereafter happen to be done or Committed Concerning the premisses or Any of them and to Inspect all Indictments before you or Any of You taken or to be taken or before our Late Justices of the peace within our Said County had and taken and not yet determined and process thereon Against all or Any person or persons so Indicted or Which Shall hereafter happen to be Indicted within our County afd. to make and Continue untill they Shall be taken or Surrender themselves or be Outlawed and to hear and determine all and Every the felonies petty Treasons Murders Rapes upon White Women Wilfull burning of Any Dwelling house or Outhouse Contiguous to and used with Any Dwelling house or Any other Outhouse wherein there Shall be any person or Any Goods or Merchandizes Tobacco Indian Corn or Fodder and all other Capitall Offences done or perpetrated by Any Negro or Other Slave and Likewise all Consulting Advising and Conspiring of Negroes and other Slaves to Rebel or raise any Insurrection or to murder or poison Any person or to Ravish Any White woman or to Attempt to burn any Dwelling house or Outhouses Contiguous to or used therewith Trespasses forestallings Regratings Riots Indictements and all other the Matters afd. According to the Laws Customs and directions of the Acts of Assembly afd. so far forth as they provide and where they are Silent According to the Laws Statutes and Reasonable Customs of England as used and practised within this province and the Said Delinquents and Every of them to Chastise and Punish by fines Ransoms Amerciaments forfeitures and otherwise According to the Laws Customs & Directions of the Acts of Assembly afd. So far forth as they provide and where they are Silent According to the Laws Statutes and Reasonable Customs of England as used and practised within this province But we will not that you Proceed in Any of the Cases afd. to take Life or Member Except of Negroes and other Slaves but that in Every Such Case you Send the Prisoners with their Indictments and the whole Matters depending before you to our Justices of Assize Nisi Prius and Goal delivery at the next Court of Oyer and Terminer to be held for our Said County be it Whensoever or Wheresoever to be holden there to be tried And we Command you and Every of you diligently to intend the keeping the peace Acts of Assembly Laws Customs and Statutes afd. and all and Every the premisses and that at your County Courts you make Inquisition and hear and determine as afd. doing therein what to Justices Appertains According to the Laws Customs and directions of the Acts of Assembly afd. So far forth as they provide and where they are Silent According to the Laws Statutes and Reasonable Customs of England as used and practised within this Province and further we do Constitute Ordain and Appoint you the Said Benjamin Tasker Charles Hammond, Samuel Chamberlain, Philip Thomas, Edward Lloyd, Richard Lee, Benedict Calvert, Robert Jenkins Henry, Daniel Dulany, Stephen Bordly, John Ridout, Charles Goldsborough, Isaac Handy, Sampson Wheatly |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1760-1763
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