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Howard County Circuit Court, Chattel Records, 1854-1860
Volume 814, Page 278   View pdf image
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278

Constables Bond
Nathan Shipley
          to
State of Maryland
 Know all men by these presents
That we Nathan Shipley William
Cushen and John W Mercer all of
Howard County and state of Maryland
are held and firmly bound
unto the State of Maryland in the full and just sum of two
thousand dollars current money to be paid to the State of
Maryland:  To which payment well and truly to be made and
done we bind ourselves our heirs executors and administrators
Jointly and Severally firmly by these presents Sealed with our
Seals and dated this Seventeenth day of February in the year
of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty eight
The Condition of the above obligation is such that if the above
bounden Nathan Shipley appointed a constable in the fourth
Election District of Howard County do and shall well and faithfully
execute the same office in all things appertaining thereto and shall
well and faithfully execute all warrants and other process to him
directed and delivered and shall also well and truly pay and
deliver to the person or persons entitled to receive the same all sum
or sums of money tobacco goods and chattels or other property
by him levied Seized or taken agreeably to the directions of the said
warrant or process under which the same shall have been levied
Seized or taken and also keep and detain in safe custody or by him
taken in execution without suffering them or any of them to
escape or depart from his custody and shall also well and
truly execute and perform the Several duties required of
or imposed upon him by the laws of this state then this obligation
to be void and of none effect else to remain in full force and
virtue in law
Signed sealed and delivered               Nathan Shipley   (seal)
          in presence of                          Wm Cushen        (seal)
Saml H Simmons                               John W Mercer   (seal)
                            Howard County to wit:
on this Seventeenth day of Febuary in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and fifty eight before the subscriber one
of the State of Maryland's justices of the peace in and for said county
appears Nathan Shipley and makes oath that he will faithfully
and honestly Serve in the office of Constable for the fourth
Election District of Howard County and will well and truly
according to the power Skill and Knowledge perform and execute the
duties belonging to the office of Constable so long as he shall
continue in such office; and that he will to the best of his ability
perform all the duties required of him by the act relating to
negroes and to repeal the act of assembly therein mention and


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