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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1760-1763
Volume 543, Page 224   View pdf image
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      June Court                   1763           224
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 Justice
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
Edward Lloyd Richard Lee Benedict Calvert Robert Jenckins Henry Daniel Dulany
Stephen Bordly, John Ridout Charles Goldsborough, William Hayward, Sampson Wheatly
Joseph Gilliss Samuel Adams William Winder Ephraim Wilson Ephraim King
Thomas Jones, John Dennis, Thomas Holbrook, Planner Williams, William Adams
David Polk Thomas Moor and Isaiah Tilman or Any three or more of you As afd. to Issue
out Writts Precepts Process and Attachments and hold plea of all Actions popular and of all
Actions Personall of Whatsort Soever wherein the demand doth not Exceed the Sum of One
hundred Pounds Sterling or thirty thousand Pounds of tobacco and all Actions personall now
depending before you and after Judgment Execution to award in all Such Cases and Actions 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 in which Said Actions So to be tried we do
Constitute Ordain and Appoint You the Said Benjamin Tasker, Charles Hammond Samuel
Chamberlain Edward Lloyd Richard Lee Benedict Calvert Robert Jenkins Henry Daniel
Dulany Stephen Bordly John Ridout Charles Goldsborough William Hayward Sampson
Wheatly, Joseph Gillis Samuel Adams William Winder Ephraim Wilson Ephraim King
Thomas Jones, John Dennis Thomas Holebrook Planner Williams, William Adams David
Polk Thomas Moor and Isaiah Tilman and none others to be Judges Also by these Presents
we do Command the Sheriff of our Said County of Somerset that at the Several Courts to be held for our
Said County he give his Attendance and Cause to Come before you or any three or more of you as
afd. Such and So many good and Lawfull men of his Bailywick out of Each and Every hundred
thereof by whom the truth of the Matter in the Premisses may be the better known and enquired
of Lastly you Shall Cause to be brought before you at your Said Courts all Writts Precepts
Process and Indictments to your Courts and Jurisdiction belonging that the Same may be
inspected and by due Course of Law determined Wittness Our Trusty and well beloved

Horatio                  



 
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