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379 State of Maryland Dorchester County to wit Be it remembered Exd from and it is hereby Certified that the following Bond James E. Douglass 70 was received and recorded the 1st day of and December 1851 Others {$6.00} Know all men by these presence {Stamp} that we James E. Douglass Jno H. Hudson John N Wright James E Hall Isaac Davis Charles W Carroll and John Baker 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 Twenty six thousand six hundred and sixty six dollars sixty six and two third cents current money to be paid to the said state or its certain attarney 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 presence sealed with our seals and dated this first day of December Eighteen hundred and fifty one. The Condition of the above obligation is such that if the above bounden James E Douglas as Sheriff of Dorchester County do and shall well and faithfully execute the same office in all things appertaining thereto and shall also render to the several offices within this State a just and true account of all fees placed in hs hands for collection within the time limited by Law and shall also well and truly pay all sums of money received by him and also collect and pay all public dues fines and forfeitures which are due or belonging to the state and shall also well and faithfully execute and return all writ process and warrant to him directed and delivered and shall also pay and deliver to the person or persons entitled to receive the same all sum or sums of money, tobacco, goods, chattels, or property by him levied, seized or taken agreeable to the directions of the writ process or warrant under which the same shall have been levied seized or taken and shall also keep and detain in safe custody all and every person and persons committed to his custody or by him taken in execution or who shall be committed for the want of bail without suffring them or any of them to escape or depart from his custody and shall also satisfy and pay all judgments which shall or may be rendered against him as sheriff and shall also well and truly execute and perform the several duties required of or imposed upon him by the Laws of this state Then this obligation to be void and of none effect otherwise to remain in full force and virtue in Law. James E. Douglass (seal) Signed sealed and delivered in Jno H. Hudson (seal) presence of John N. Wright (seal) Thomas Breerwood James E. Hall (seal) John W. Dail Isaac Davis (seal) Algernon Thomas Charles W. Carroll (seal) John Baker (seal) |
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