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fine 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 

 JMorris be sold by the said sheriff of this county, to tlie 

 highest bidder for any term not exceeding six years, and 

 that^the 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 

 court. 



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

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

 court, that pursuant to a former order he had sold JNIorris 

 Cannady for the time limited by said order to one John 

 Lawrence, of Peshtank, for sixteen pounds, of which 

 sum 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 

 coint would order the costs of suit and other charges 

 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, 2^^^'^ curia, that Tobias Hendricks and An- 

 drew Galbraith, Esqrs., settle the said accounts and 

 certify their proceedings to the Governor in behalf of 

 said sheriff, according to his prayer. 



To completely organize the townships after their 

 erection, the court, at the session for August, 1729, made 

 the following appointments, viz : For Hempfield town- 

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

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

 Henry Neiff, supervisors. Conestoga, Albert Hendricks, 

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

 Linville, supervisor. Martock, George Littleton, con- 



