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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 94   View pdf image
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the said Ferry over Slaughter Creek from the Main to where Henry
Travers formerly lived 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 from
the tenth of May 1848 and ending twelve months thereafter and shall
keep constantly and in good order a Scow that will safely carry four
passengers and their Horses at one trip with two able bodied and
skilful hands to attend the said Ferry, and shall not charge or receive
any greater price for ferriage than what is allowed by law, then the
above obligation to be null and void, otherwise of force and virtue in
law.                                                               Jeremiah L. Pattison      (seal)
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of      John W. Travers       (seal)
James Higgins      John L. Willis                          George W. Wingate   (seal)

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


State of Maryland                 Be it remembered that the following Bond
          from                           was recorded on the 17.th day of April 1848, To wit:
Hooper C. Hicks & others   {Stamp}   Know all men by these presents that
                                          {one dol.}   we Hooper C. Hicks, Thomas H. Hicks
and Richardson Gambrell, of Dorchester County in the State of Maryland,
are held and firmly bound unto the state of Maryland in the full & just
sum of Two thousand 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 &
Administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents.  Sealed with
our seals and dated this 17.th day of April 1848.

The Condition of the above Obligation is such that if the above
bounden Hooper C. Hicks shall well and truly execute the Office of
Constable in the Town of Vienna, in Dorchester County, in all things
appertaining thereto, and shall well and truly account for all monies
placed in his hands for collection, and shall also well and truly pay all
sums of money received by him, then the above obligation to be void,
otherwise of full force and virtue in law.
Signed, sealed & delivered in the presence of         Hooper C. Hicks   (seal)
James Higgins      Barzillai Slacum                          Tho H. Hicks         (seal)
                                                                                       his
                                                                      Richardson x Gambrell   (seal)
                                                                                      mark

Dorchester County, To wit:
on the 17.th day of April 1848 personally appeared before me, the
subscriber, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County aforesaid
James Higgins and Barzillai Slacum and made the following
Oath, To wit:  "We James Higgins and Barzillai Slacum, subscribing


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