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Dorchester County Court, Chattel Records, 1842-1847
Volume 774, Page 351   View pdf image
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of full force and virtue in law.                              Walter Kirby           (L S)
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of      Sam.l R. Dunnock   (L S)
John Muir         Sam.l I. Meekins                               W.m Kirby       (L S)

Dorchester County, To wit:   On the 20.th day of April 1846
personally appeared before me the subscriber a Justice of the
Peace in and for the County aforesaid John Muir and Samuel
I. Meekins and made the following Oath, To wit:  "We John
Muir and Samuel I. Meekins subscribing Witnesses to the
above Bond do make Oath that Walter Kirby, William Kirby
and Samuel R. Dunnock obligors mentioned in the said Bond
did severally in our presence sign, seal & deliver the said
Bond as their act and deed for the purposes therein mentioned.
Sworn before me on the day above mentioned.      Robt Bell   J. P.


State of M.d            Be it remembered that the following Bond
Ex.d   from              was recorded on the 20.th day of April 1846, To wit:
Thomas Wingate      Know all men by these presents that we Thomas
    Constable            Wingate, Levin Mowbray, Sam.l D. LeCompte
                                and James B. Chaplain all of Dorchester
County in the State of Maryland are held and firmly bound
unto the State of Maryland in the full and just sum of
Two thousand dollars current money of the United States
to be paid to the said State or its certain Attorney to which
payment well and truly to be made and done we bind
ourselves, our heirs, executors and Administrators jointly
and severally firmly by these presents.  Sealed with our seals
and dated this 20.th day of April A. D. 1846.
The Condition of the above obligation is such that if the
above bounden Thomas Wingate shall well and faithfully
execute the office of Constable in N.o 7 Election district in
Dorchester County in all things appertaining thereto and
shall also well and truly account for all moneys placed in
his hands for Collection and shall also well and truly pay all sums
of money received by him agreeably to "an Act of the General Assembly
passed at November Session 1809 entitled an Act relating
to Constables Bonds" and shall well and truly account for
all money which he shall receive on Judgments and shall
well and truly pay over the same and shall faithfully
perform all acts which he shall perform in virtue of
his office in the said County in the state of Maryland
then the above obligation to be void else to remain in


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