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Dorchester County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1852-1860
Volume 805, Page 226   View pdf image
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Whereas the County Commissioners for Dorchester County by virtue of a supplement to the act entitled
"An additional supplement to the act to regulate Ferries have contracted with the said Wm Pickram
to keep the Ferry over the North West fork of Nanticoke River commonly called Crotchers
Ferry and agree to allow the said Wm Pickram the sum of One Hundred & ninety nine Dollars
& 50 c Current money for the same.  Now the Condition of the above obligation is such that
if the above bounden Wm Pickram shall well faithfully and diligently keep the said Ferry
over the North West fork of Nanticoke River commonly called Crotchers Ferry from the
dawn of day light in the morning until the expiration of day light in the evening each day
from the tenth day of May 1856 until the first day of January eighteen hundred and fifty
seven and shall keep constantly and in good order a scow that will safely carry three passengers
and three horses at one trip with one able bodied and skillful hand to attend the said
Ferry and shall not charge or receive any greater price for services than what is allowed by law
Signed sealed & delivered                                                                           his
            in the presence of                                                                     Wm x Pickram   (seal)
                   E W Tull                                                                                 mark
                                                                                                                       his
                                                                                                             S. H. x Rhodes   (seal)
                                                                                                                    mark
                                                                                                                Rich.d Rhodes   (seal)

                                     The above Bond & sureties appeared by the County Commissioners
for Dorchester County May 12 1856
                                                                                        Josiah Jump Clk to Commissioners


The State of Maryland      Be it remembered and it is hereby Certified that the following Bond
       √      from      xd        was received and recorded on the 12th day of May 1856 to wit:
J. W. Benson & Others     Know all men by these presents that we J W Benson
                                        James Robinson & Edward Burford 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 Three Hundred Dollars Current money of Maryland 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 and for the whole jointly
and severally firmly by these presents.  Sealed with our seals and dated this ninth day of
May Eighteen Hundred and fifty six.  Whereas the County Commissioners for Dorchester
County by virtue of a supplement to the act entitled An additional supplement to the act
to regulate Ferries have contracted with the said J. W. Benson to keep the Ferry over the
North East Prong of Nanticoke River from Sharp Town in Somerset County to the North
West Fork in Dorchester County and agree to allow the said J. W. Benson the sum of One
Hundred and thirty five Dol.s Current money for the same.   Now the Condition of the
above obligation is such that if the above bounden J W Benson shall well faithfully
and diligently keep the said Ferry over the North East prong of Nanticoke River from
Sharp Town in Somerset County to the North West Fork in Dorchester County from the
dawn of day light in the morning until the expiration of day light in the evening each
day from the 10th day of May 1856 until the first day of January Eighteen hundred
and fifty seven and shall keep constantly and in good order a Scow that will safely
Carry three passengers and three horses at one trip with an able bodied and skillful
hand to attend the said Ferry and shall not charge or receive any greater price for services
than what is allowed by Law
Signed sealed & delivered in the presence of                           Jonathan W Benson   (seal)
                John Robinson of Elijah                                             James Robinson      (seal)


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