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August Court
1735 (61) William Lane, Thomas Williams, Henry Ballard, David Willson, Edward Rownd, Charles Ratcliff, George Dashiell, Thomas Gilliss, Isaac Handy and Mitchell Dashiell and none others to be Judges also by these presents 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 & Cause to Come before you or any three or more of you as af.d such & so many Good and Lawfull men of his bailywick out of Each & Every hundred thereof by whom the truth of the matter in the premises may be the better known & Enquired of Lastly you Cause to be brought before you at your said Courts all writts precepts process & Indictments to your Courts & Jurisdictions belonging that the same may be Inspected & by due Course of Law determined Wittness our trusty & well beloved Samuel Ogle Esqr Lieutenant General & Chief Governour of our said province of Maryland this sixteenth day of July in the 21.st year of our Dominion &.c Annoq Dom 1735 (Great seal) On the backside of the foregoing Commission it was Endorsed as Followeth Sam: Ogle viz.t Maryland ss.t Charles absolute Lord Proprietary of the provinces of Maryland and avalon Lord Baron of Balt &.c To Richard Tilghman Mathew Tilghman Ward, John Rousby, Benj.a Tasker, Philip Lee & John Rider Esq.rs & John Smith Balt hundred, William Stoughton, John Handy, James Dashiell, John Scott, James Martin, William Lane, Thomas Williams & Henry Ballard of Somerset County Gentl Greeting we do ^hereby^ authorize & Impower you or Either of you to administer the severall oaths appointed by act of assembly as also the oath of Judge or Justice to John Hall, Mich.l Howard, George Plater, Edm.d Jennings & Charles Hammond Esq.rs & Robert King, David Wilson, Edw.d Rownd, Charles Ratcliff George Dashiell, Thomas Gilliss, Isaac Handy & Mitchell Dashiell of the same county Gentl or any of them you the said John Hall, Mich.l Howard, Geo: Plater Edm.d Jennings & Charles Hammond Esq.rs & Robert King, David Willson, Edw.d Rownd Charles Ratcliff, George Dashiell, Thomas Gilliss, Isaac Handy & Mitchel Dashiell or any of you having taken the said Oaths are hereby Impowered to Administer the same to ye Justices & Commissioners Respectively as they are nominated in the within Commission & we will that you & every of you having taken the said Oaths do severally subscribe the Test & Oath of Abjuration & for so doing this Shall be your sufficient warrant and authority hereof fail not & when you have the same so done you are to Certifie the same under your hands & seals to us in our high Court of Chancery with all Convenient Speed Witness our Trusty and well beloved Samuel Ogle Esq.r lieutenant Gen.l & Chief Governour (of our |
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