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339 dollars current money to be paid to the state of Maryland: To the 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 sixteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty nine The condition of the above obligation is such that if the above bounded Jo.s B Winbigler appointed a constable in the second 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 chattles or other by him levied sized or taken agreeably to the directions of said warrant or process under which the same shall have levied, siezed or taken and shall also keep and detain in safe costody all and every person or persons committed to his costody or by him taken in execution without suffering them or any of them to escape or depart from his costody and shall also well and truly execute and perform the several duties required of or imposed on 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 J. B. Winbigler (seal) delivered in presence of W. J. Timanus (seal) N. C. Brooks J Groves (seal) J. Joshua Mayfield Beal Helms (seal) James Gaw (seal) Howard County to Wit: On the sixteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty nine before the subscriber one of the state of Maryland's Justices of the Peace in and for said County appear Joseph B Winbigler and makes oath that he will faithfully and honestly serve in the office of constable for the second Election district of Howard County and will well and truly according to his power skill and knowledge perform and execute the duties belonging to the office of constable so long as he shall continue in said 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 acts of assembly therein mentioned and the several supplements thereto without favour, affection or partially sworn before W. A. Loder |
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