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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 92   View pdf image
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Attorney, to the which payment well and truly to be made and done, we
bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and Administrators, in the whole &
for the whole, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents.  Sealed
with our seals and dated this seventeenth day of April 1848.
Whereas the Commissioners of Dorchester County, by virtue of a supplement
to the act entitled an Additional supplement to the Act entitled an Act
to regulate Ferries, have contracted with the said Levin T. Dunnock
to keep the Ferry over Slaughter Creek from Taylor's Island to Meekins'
neck, and agree to allow the said Levin T. Dunnock the sum of one
hundred and sixty dollars, current money, for the same.
Now the Condition of the above Obligation is such that if the
above bounden Levin T. Dunnock shall faithfully & diligently
keep the said Ferry over Slaughter Creek from Taylor's Island to
Meekins' neck from day light to day light from the first of
November to the first of March, and from an hour before to an
hour after day light for the residue of the year, commencing
the tenth day of May 1848 and ending twelve months thereafter,
and shall keep constantly and in good order a Scow that will
safely carry three passengers and their Horses at one trip, with
an able bodied and skilful hand to attend the said Ferry &
shall and charge or receive any greater price for services
than what is allowed by law, then the above Obligation to be
void, otherwise of full force and virtue in law.                 his
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of      John T. x Dunnock   (seal)
James Higgins      John L. Willis                                    mark
                                                                           John W. Hayward    (seal)
                                                                               John Tubman        (seal)

Approved by the board of Commissioners for Dorchester County,
April 17.th 1848   By order      Test William Rea Clk C. D. C.


State of Maryland      Be it remembered that the following Bond was
65   from      Ex.d       recorded on the 17.th day of April 1848, To wit:
John Reed & others   {Stamp}   Know all men by these, that we John
                                 {15 cts}    Reed, James E. Douglass, John W. Montine
of Dorchester County, are held & firmly bound unto the state of Maryland,
in the full and just sum of three hundred dollars, current money of
the United States, to be paid to the said state, or its certain Attorney,
to the which payment well and truly to be made and done, we bind
ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators, in the whole & for the whole,
jointly and severally, firmly by these presents.  Sealed with our seals &
dated this 17.th day of April 1848.  Whereas the Commissioners of Dorchester
County, by virtue of a supplement to the Act entitled an additional
supplement to the Act entitled an Act to regulate Ferries, have contracted
with the said John Reed to keep the Ferry over the North West Fork


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