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Provincial Court Proceedings, 1679/80. 113
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the whole Amount unto the Sume of ffifteene hundred twenty eight
pounds of tobacco. In consideration whereof the said Michael did
assume upon himselfe & to the said Richard did faithfully promise,
that he the said Michael the said Sume of ffifteene hundred twenty
eight pounds of tobacco to him the said Richard when thereunto
required would well & truely content & pay Neverthelesse the said
Michael in his life tyme nor the said Margarett Exx as aforesaid
while she was sole, nor the said Wm & Margarett since their Espous-
alls though often thereunto required haue not paid, but the same to
pay have denyed & yet deny, to the damage of the said Richard three
thousand pounds of tobacco & thereupon he bringeth suite
And the said Wm & Margarett by Robert Carvile their Attorney
come & defend the force & injury when &c and pray liberty to im-
parle hereunto untill next Provintiall Court, & itt is granted unto
them, the same day is given to the plt also.
Att which said next Provintiall Court to witt the Nineteenth day
of ffebruary in the fifth year of the Dominion of the right Honble
Charles Lord Baltemore &c Anocp Domini 1679 came the said
Richard Hill by his Attorney aforesaid & offered himselfe against
the said Wm & Margarett in the plea aforesaid, but the said
Wm & Margarett came not but made default. Therefore itt is con-
sidered that the said Richard Hill recover against the said Wm Cole &
Margarett his wife Exx as aforesaid as well the aforesaid Sume of
fifteene hundred twenty eight pounds of tobacco damages occasioned
by the prmisses As also pounds of
tobacco costs of suite And the Defendt3 in mercy &c
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Liber W. C.
p. 102
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John Atkey
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Richard Ladd
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Richard Ladd Sheriffe of Calvert County was At-
tached to Answer unto John Atkey of a plea of
trespasse upon the case
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And whereupon the said John Atkey by Robert
Ridgely his Attorney complaineth, that whereas by a certaine Act
of Assembly made att an Assembly begun & held att the Citty of
St Maryes the sixteenth day of May one thousand six hundred
Seventy six entituled an Act for Lymitation of Officers flees, itt is
thereby amongst other things therein contained, Enacted by the
right Honble the Lord Propry by & with the advice & consent of the
upper & lower houses of that prsent Genll Assembly, that from &
after the publicacon thereof, no Officer or Officers thereafter men-
coned in the said Act their Ministers Servants or Deputies by reason
or colour of his or their Office or Offices have receive or take of
any person or persons directly or indirectly any other ffees then by
the said Act is thereafter lymitted & allowed to the severall Officers
thereafter mentioned, that is to say To the Sheriffe for serving an
Execution or Attachmt ten pounds of tobacco, & if itt exceed five
hundred pounds of tobacco, One hundred pounds of tobacco And
in case any shall doe contrary to the said Act directly or indirectly
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