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Dorchester County Court Chattel Records, 1847-1852
Volume 776, Page 99   View pdf image
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Slacum and James Higgins, and made the following Oath, To wit:  "We
Barzillai Slacum and James Higgins, subscribing witnesses to the above Bond,
do make Oath that Nimrod Newton, Thomas Helsby and John W. Dawson,
Obligors mentioned in the said Bond, did severally, in our presence, sign, seal
and deliver the said Bond, as their Act and deed, for the purposes therein
mentioned."  Sworn before me ^on^ the day above mentioned.
                                                                                        Ja.s Hammersly


State of Maryland                  Be it remembered that the following Bond was
          from      Ex.d               recorded on the 17.th day of April 1848, To wit:
Syd.m H. Corkran & others  {Stamp}     Know all men by these presents, that
                                            {one dol.}   we Sydenham H. Corkran, Algernon
Corkran and James E. Douglass of Dorchester County in the state
of Maryland, are held & 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 the which payment well and truly to be made & done, we
bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and 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 Sydenham H. Corkran shall well & truly execute the
Office of Constable in Election District Number two, 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                          Sydm H. Corkran      (L S)
in the presence of                                                      his
James Higgins                                             Algernon x Corkran   (L S)
Barzillai Slacum                                                       mark
                                                                        J. E. Douglass      (L S)

Dorchester County, To wit:  On the 17.th day of April 1848, personally appeared before
me the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace in & for the County aforesaid, James Higgins
and Barzillai Slacum, and made the following Oath, To wit:  "We James
Higgins and Barzillai Slacum, subscribing witnesses to the above
Bond, do make Oath that Sydenham H. Corkran, Algernon Corkran
and James E. Douglass, obligors mentioned in the said Bond, did severally,
in our presence, sign, seal and deliver the said Bond, as their Act &
deed, for the purposes therein mentioned."
Sworn before me on the day above mentioned
                                                                         Ja.s Hammersly


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