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       Know all men by these Presents that we Richard Clagett John Frazier Bowie
       we of Prince Georges County Gentlemen are held and firmly Bound unto the
       State of Maryland in the full and just Quantity of Forty Thousand Pounds
       of Tobacco to be paid unto the said State to which Payment well and
       Truly to be made and done we bind ourselves and every of us our and
       every of our Heirs Executors and Administrators in the Whole and for the
       Whole Jointly and Severally firmly by these Presents Sealed with our
       Seals and Dated this Twentieth day of October in the year Seventeen
       hundred and Eighty four      The Condition of the above obligation is
       such that if the above bound Richard Clagett will diligently and Carefully
       View and Examine all Tobacco brought to any Public Warehouse or Warehouses
       which he is appointed Inspector and all other Tobacco he shall be
       Called upon to view and Inspect and that he will not Receive any Tobacco
       that is not in his Judgment Sound well Conditioned Merchantable and Clear
       of Trash nor receive pass or stamp any Tobacco or Hogshead of Tobacco Prohibited
       by an Act of Assembly entitled an Act for the Regulation of the Staple
       of Tobacco and that he will pass ^&^ Stamp all Tobacco that is Sound well
       Conditioned Merchantable and clear of Trash and in all things well and
       faithfully discharge his duty in that office of an Inspector according to
       the best of his Skill and Judgment and According to the directions of the said
       act without fear favour Affection Malice or Partiality and that he will
       in all things well and faithfully discharge his Duty in the office of
       an Inspector according to the best of his Skill and Judgment and acording
       to the Directions of the said Act without fear favour affection Malice or
       Partiality and that He will in all things well and faithfully execute and
       perform the several Duties required of him by this Act  Then the above obligation
       to be void otherwise to remain and be in full force and Virtue in Law
                                                                                     Rich.d Clagett   (seal)
       Signed sealed and delivered                                    John Fraser Bowie   (seal)
       in the Presence of
                         Osb Sprigg

       Twentieth October 1784 M.r Osborn Sprigg made oath that he saw Mess.rs Rich.d Clagett and John
       Frazer Bowie Sign seal and deliver the within Bond and Signed the same as Witness at
       the Request of the Parties
                                                                                                             Nath.l Magruder
                Recorded the 21.st December 1784


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