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fiiie to the Honorable, the Governor of this province^ 

 and to discharge the costs of prosecution against him, 

 and humbly praying the relief of this court in the 

 premises; it is therefore ordered ^^er curia, that the said 

 Morris be sold by the said sheriff of this county, to the 

 highest bidder for any term not exceeding six years, and 

 thatjhe money thence arising be applied for or towards 

 payment of the fine and costs aforesaid; and that the 

 sheriff make return of his doings herein to the next 

 com't. 



1730, November 3.---At a court held at Lancaster. 



Robert Barber, late sheriff of the county, reports to the 



com-t, that pursuant to a former order he had sold Morris 



Cannady for the time limited by said order to one John 



Lawrence, of Peshtank, for sixteen pounds, of which 



smn he had only received the value of fourteen pounds, 



five shillings, and the said John being insolvent, the 



remainder could not be had ; he, therefore, prays this 



court would order the costs of suit and other charo-es 



against said Canady to be settled and the state thereof 



represented to the Governor that the said sheriff may be 



no further liable than he hath effects to answer. 



Ordered, ptr curia, that Tobias Hendricks and An- 

 drew Galbraith, Esqrs,, settle the said accounts and 

 certify their proccedhigs to the Governor hi behalf of 

 said sheriff, according to his prayer. 



To completely organize the townships after their 

 erection, the court, at the session for August, \129, made 

 the following appohitments, viz: For Hempfield town- 

 ship, Joshua Low, for John Brubaker, constable; Ed- 

 mund Smout, over-seer of the poor; Joshua Law and 

 Henry Neiff, supervisors. Conestoga, Albert Hendricks, 

 constable; David Jones, over-seer of the poor; John 

 Linvillc, supevvisor. Martock, George Littleton, con- 



