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Dorchester County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1852-1860
Volume 805, Page 250   View pdf image
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William D Travers & James Smith the sum of one Hundred dollars
current money for the same.

Now the conditions of the above obligations is such that if the above
bounden William D. Travers & James Smith shall well and faithfully
keep open Slaughter Creek Bridge draw for vessels to pass
through from the dawn of day in the morning until the expiration
of day light in the evening each day; and at any time
of the night when called on by the master of a vessel wanting
to pass through from the first day of January 1857 until the
first day of January 1858 then this obligation to be void and
of none effect else of full virtue and force in law.
Sealed signed & delivered                    James Smith          (seal)
in the presence of                                 Wm D. Travers       (seal)
             Benjamin L. Smith                   Jere L. Patterson     (seal)

                      The above Bond & Sureties approved by the County
        Commissioners for Dorchester County this 22d December 1856
                                                                      Josiah Jump clk to
                                                                      County Commissioners


The State of Maryland      Be it remembered and it is hereby certified that
    √      From      xd          the following Bond was recorded on the
Washington A Smith &     22 day of December 1856 to wit
    others
                                         Know all men by these present that we
Washington A. Smith, Jeremiah L. Patterson, and William W. Cator
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 hole jointly
and severally firmly by these presents; sealed with our seals
and dated this Twenty second day of November Eighteen Hundred
& 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 Washington A Smith to keep the Ferry over Slaughter Creek
from Taylors Island to Meekins Neck and agree to allow the said
Washington A Smith the sum of Two Hundred & twenty nine
dollars current money for the same.  Now the Condition of the above
obligation is such that if the above bounden Washington A Smith
shall well faithfully and diligently keep the said Ferry over
Slaughter Creek from Taylors Island to meekins Neck from the
dawn of day light in the morning until the expiration of
daylight in the evening each day from the first day of


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