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receipt, or otherwise make appear the same to be paid under for-
feiture and penalty of trible the sume Executed to the party or party's
Grieved to be recovered with Cost in any Court of record within
this province by bill plaint or Information wherein no Essoyn Pro-
tection or wager of Law to be allowed.
And for as much as sherriffs bonds have of late years been usually
taken in the County Courts for the better Conveniency of Sherr^s
getting Security for ascertaining the forme whereof for the future
Be it therefore Enacted by the authority Advice and Consent af^d
that all sherriffs bonds hereafter to be taken throughout this province
shall be made in manner and forme following (that is to Say) Mary-
land ss. Know all men by these presents that we A: B: of
.............. County in the province af^d are holden and firmly
bound unto our Sovereign Lady Anne &c^a in the full sume and Just
quantity of two hund^d thousand pounds of good sound merchantable
leaf tobacco and Cask to be paid to her said Maj^ty her heirs and
successors to the which paym^t well and truly to be made we bind
ourselves and Either of vis and either of our heirs Executors and
adm^rs Joyntly and Severally for the whole and in the whole firmly by
these presents sealed with our scales and dated the day of
in the year of her Maj^tys reigne Annoq Dom 17 ... The Con-
dition of the above obligation is such that if the above bounden A: B :
do well and truly Serve her said Majesty her heirs and Successors in

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the office of high sherr of the County of within the Province
af^d and also shall render unto her said Maj^ty and other her Officers a
true faithfull and perfect acc^t of all and Singular her said Majestys
rights and dues and to her officers a true and Just acc^t of their fees
that he shall or may be Intrusted with by her Majestys Governour
and other her officers within this Province to receive and Collect and
his acc^t to her said Maj^ty her heirs and successors and to her and their
Governour there for the time being for the fines and forfeitures and
other dues belonging to her said Maj^tys Governour as also his account
of all fees dues and Sums of Mony or tobacco for Levy's due to the
publick County or parish or forty pounds of tobacco p poll to the
minister or fees due to any her Maj^tys officers and other good people
within this province shall pass an account by the tenth day of May
next Ensueing the date hereof and in all other things as sherriff of
the County of shall behave himself well and honestly towards
all persons according to the best of his power skill and knowledge,
then this obligation to be void and of no Effect or Elce to stand in full
force strength and vertue which said bond taken in form af^d if by the
County Court the Commissioners thereof shall Yearly transmitt the
same unto the Secretaryes office, and the said Commissioners are here-
by required and Enjoyned to take new security yearly and Every year
of such Sherriffs. so long as they shall Continue in the said office
haveing a speciall regard not to admitt any person to be security as
af^d but such as are good and substantiall freeholders within their

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