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Novemb.r Court
1732
260 Also ^by these present^ we do Command the Sheriff of our said County of Somerset that at the Severall Courts to be held for our said County he give his Attendance and Cause to Come before you or any three or more of you as aforesaid such and so many good and Lawfull men of his bailywick out of Each and every hundred thereof by whome the truth of the Matter in the premises may be the better known and Enquired of Lastly you shall Cause to be Brought before you at your said Courts all writs precepts Processes and Indictments to your Courts and Jurisdictions belonging that the Same may be Inspected and by Due Course of Law Determined Witness our trusty and well beloved Samuel Ogle Esq.r Lieutenant General and Chief Governer of our said Province of Maryland this thirtieth Day of Octob.r in the Eighteenth Year of our Dominion &c Annoq Domini 1732 Samuel Ogle On the backside of the foregoeing Commission it was thus Endorsed viz.t Maryland sst Charles absolute Lord and proprietary of the provinces of Maryland avalon Lord baron of Baltemore &c To William Fasit John Smith Bal.t Hundred William Stoughton John Caldwell John McClester John Handy and James Dashiell of Somerset County Gent Greeting We do hereby Authorize and Impower you or either of you to Administer the Several oaths appointed by act of assembly as also the oath of Judge or Justices to Robert King, John Scott, James Martin, W.m Lane, Thom.s Williams Henry Ballard and David Willson of the Same County Gent or any of them and you The Said Robert King, John Scott, James Martin, W.m Lane, Thomas Williams Henry Ballard David or any of you having taken the Said oaths are hereby Impowered to administer the same to the Justices and Commissioners Respectively as they are Nominated in the within Commission and we will that you and Every of you having taken the Said Oaths Doe Severally Subscribe the test and oath of abjuration and for so doing this shall be Your Sufficient Warrent and Authority Thereof fail not and when you have the Same so done you are to Certifie the Same under your hands and Seales to us in our high Court of Chancery with all Convenient Speed Wittness our trust and well beloved Samuel Ogle Esq.r Lieutenant General and Cheife Governor of our said Province of Maryland this thirtyeth Day of Octob.r in the Eighteenth Year of our Dominion &c Annoq.r Dom 1732 Sam Ogle (Great Seal) Which being read and heard thereupon the said William Fasit, John Smith Balt Hundred, William Stoughton John Caldwell, John MccClester, John Handy and James Dashiell ^at somerset County^ Gent pursuant to the dedimus to them directed administred the Severall Oaths appointed by act of assembly to be taken to the Government with the Oath of Justice to Robert King, John Scott, James Martin, William Lane, Thomas Williams, Henry Ballard and David Wilson of the same County Gent who severally take the same and subscribe the oath of abjuration and test & take their places & afterwards the Same Robert King John Scott, James Martin, William Lane, Thomas Williams, Henry Ballard and David Wilson administred the same Oaths unto William Fasit, John Smith of Bal.t Hundred William Stoughton, John Caldwell (Jno) |
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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1730-1733
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