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November Court Anno Domini 1747
(175) And Reasonable Customs of England as used and Practised within this Province for the Conservation of the peace and Quiet Rule & Government of the King's subjects within our said County and to Chastise and Punish all or any Person or Persons offending against the said acts laws statutes and Customs or any of them according to the Directions thereof and to call before you or any of you all those costs in our County aforesaid shall therefore to do any bodily Harm to any of the Kings Subjects or to burn their Houses or otherwise break our Peace and misbehave themselves to find sufficient security of the peace and good Behaviour to us and the s.d subjects and if they shall Refuse to find such security that then you Cause them to be Committed into safe Custody until they shall be Delivered by due Course of law from thence also we have assigned you and every Three or more of you of whom we will you the said Benjamin Tasker Gus: Plater Edmund Jenings Charles Hammond Samuel Chamberlaine Philip Thomas Daniel Dulany Edward Lloyd Benjamin Young Benj.a Tasker Jun.r and Richard Lee Esq.rs Robert Hanson Gustavus Brown Thomas Stone Allen Davies Samuel Hanson William Middleton & William Eilbeck or one of you always to be one of your Justices to Enquire by the oaths of good and lawfull men of our County afs.d by whom the breath of the Premises may be the better known of all and all manner of Felonies Petty Treasons Murders Ropes upon White Women wilful Burning of any Dwelling House or out House Contiguous to and used with any Dwelling House or any other out House wherein there shall be any Person or any Goods or merchandizes tobacco Indian Corn or Fodder and all other Capital offences done or perpetrated by any Negroe or other Slave and likewise all Consulting Advising and Conspiring of Negroes and other slaves to Rebel or Raise any insurrection or to murder or this on any Person or to Ravish any white woman or to attempt to Burn any Dwelling House or out Houses contiguous to or used therewith and of all Trespasses engrossings Regratings forestallings and Extortions whatsoever and of all other misfeazances and offences whatsoever of which Justices of our peace lawfully may or ought to Enquire by whomsoever or how soever in our County afs.d done or Committed or which may hereafter appear to be done or Committed & also of all those who in our County afs.d in Riotous manner have gone or Rode or shall hereafter presume to go or ride with armed force against our Peace to the Disturbance of the King's Subjects and also of all Ordinary Keepers & other Persons who have offended or hereafter shall presume to offend in the abuse of Wights ^or^ and measures against the acts of assembly for the Common (Good) |
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Charles County Court, Court Record, 1746-1747
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