364 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1696/7-98.

          Lib. H. D.     entring Ships bound in Parchment folo Tenn quire of fine

                paper and halfe a quire of large broad Dutch paper. One

                Paper of Inck powder, a Penknife, four Sticks of Sealing wax,

                halfe a Box of Wafers, a Custom house lack and 25 blanck

                Plantation Bonds for each of the three first mentioned Collect

                ors the 25 Plantation Bonds for the Collector of Potomock

                being delivered to Major Dent as appears in his Receipt

                aforementioned.

                                        Hen: Denton Cl Concil.

              Mr Wm Know all Men by these presents that We Willm

             Wyvills

                Riding  Wyvill Edward Dorsey and Charles Carroll of the

               Surveyors Port of Annapolis Gentl are hereby holden and

                        firmly bounden unto our Soveraigne Lord King

                William the third &ca in the full and just sum of five hundred

                Pounds Steril to be paid to our said Soveraigne Lord King

                William &c his heirs and Successors; to true payment whereof

                we bind our Selves and every of uss Our heires Executors

                and admrs, and every of them severally and Ioyntly for the

                whole and in the whole firmly by these presents Sealed and

                dated at the Port ol Annapolis four and Twentyeth day of

                December 1697.

                 The Condition of this Obligacon is such That Whereas the

                above bounden Willm Wyvill is by the Honoble Edward Ran

                dolph Esqr Surveyor Genrll of his Majtes Customs on the Con

                tinent of America and Islands adjacent appointed and deputed

                to be Rideing Surveyor not only in the Rivers of Bohemia

                and Sassafras but also at the heads of all the Rivers on the

                Eastern Shoare unto Susquehanna River. If he the said

                Willm Wyvill shall well and faithfully execute and discharge

                the said Office and pursue all such Orders and Instructions as

                he shall from time to time receive from the Honoble the

                Comissrs of his Majtes Customs at the Customhouse in London

                in the Kingdom of England or from the Comissrs of his Majtes

                Customs and from his Majtes Governr of Maryland for the

                time being and from the Surveyor Genrll of his Majesties Cus

                toms on the Continent of America and Islands adjacent and

                in all things relating to his said Office honestly & faithfully

                demeane himselfe. That then this obligation to be voyd

                otherwise in full force and virtue.

                Signed Sealed and deli- Wm Wyvill [Seale]

                vered in the presence of. Edwd Dorsey [Seale]

                        Thomas Laurence Charles Carroll [Seale]

                        Henr Denton.