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June Court
1731
94 Required to Issue an Attachment on behalf of James Shirly for the sum of in the Acco.t herewith sent you proved with the Incident Charges according to the forme of an Act of Assembly in such case made and provided and for your y.r so Doing this Shall be your warrant as wittness my hand this twenty Sixth day of May Ann Dom 1731 Jn.o Scott To M.r Thom.s Hayward Clk of somerset County Pursuant to an act of assembly of this province now in force and by Vertue of the above Warrent was Issued the Following attachment against the Goods Chattells Rights or Cred.tts of Robert Adkins vizt Somerset ss Charles absolute Lord and proprietary of the provinces of maryland and avalon Lord Baron of Baltemore &.c To the Sher of Somerset County Greeting we Command you that you attach any the Goods Chattells Rights or Cred.tt of Robert Adkins Late of Somerset County maryner if they Shall be found in Your Baylywick to the Value of fourteen hundred pounds of tobacco and One pounds three Shillings and Six pence and when you have the Same attached or any part thereof the Same in Your Custody Safe keep so that you have the same before our Justices of our county Cot of somerset to be held at Dividing Creek the third tuesday of June Next then and there to be Condemned According to act of assembly to and for the Use of a Certain James Shirley Unless the said Rob.t Adkins by himself or his Attorney shall appear and answere unto the said James Shirley in a plea of Trespass upon the case &.c According to Law and that by good and Lawfull men of your Bailywick you make known unto the person or persons in whose hands you make the same attachment that he she or they be and apear before our Justices of our county Court to be held as afd to Shew cause if any he she or they have why the same goods Chattels Rights or Creditts so attached in his her or their hands ought not to be condemned and Execution thereof had and made According to Act of Assembly in such case made and provided if to him her or their it shall seem meet and how you Shall Execute this Writt that you make known unto our said Justices at the day and place afd and have you then and there this Writt Wittness W.m Planner Gent one of Our Justices of our said Court the ^twentieth^ day of March In the sixteenth Year of Our Dominion &.c Ann Dom one thousand seven hundred and thirty Att which Said third tuesday of June to witt the fifteenth day of the Same month ann Dom One thousand Seven hundred and thirty One being the day of the return of the Said Writt Cometh the Said James Shirley by Levin Gale his attorney and the Sher of Somerset County to whom the foregoeing writt was directed Likewise Cometh and maketh Return thereof to the Court here Endorsed vizt To the worshipfull the Justices of the Court within Mentioned I Certifie that I have attached two horses appraised to fifteen hundred pounds of tobacco as the Goods and Chattells of Robert Atkins and have delivered the Same unto the within Named James Shirley John Purnall sher Whereupon the Said James Shirly by his attorney afd Comes here into court and prays that upon Giveing Security according to act of assembly the afd two horses of the Value of fifteen hundred pounds of tobacco as of the Rights and Cred.tts of the afd Robert Adkins may be Condemned for the Use of the Said James Shirley towards Satisfying unto the Said James Shirley the afd Fourteen hundred pounds of tobacco & One pound three Shillings and Six pence Curr money Thereupon a Certain Levin Gale of Somerset County Esq.r being present here in Court undertakes for the said James Shirley according to act of assembly that if in Case the Said Robert Atkins do at any time appear within a year and a day and ^make^ all or any part of the Said James Shirley's Claim against him to be Satisfyed or otherwise to have been made under before the Laying of this attachment that then he the Said James Shirley shall |
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