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1765.
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May. 23d.
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By adjournment Thursday
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23d May 1765
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Treasurer
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ship vacant and
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to settle Account with
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Mr Higgs Executors}
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This Court being Informed that
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of this County and also Treasurer or Receiver of the Rents of the Lands and.
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Tenements the Estate belonging to this County departed this life on or about
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the fourteenth day of this Instant May doth Declare the said Offices to be
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vacant and doll appoint
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Chancery Lane
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in the County
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Gentleman County Treasurer and also Treasurer or Receiver
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of the said County rents in the room and Stead of the said Mr. Higgs untile
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and receiver shall be appointed according to the Rules and order
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of the sessions And this Court doth further order that it be and it is hereby
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Recommended and refered to
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Godfey
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. and such other
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of his Majestys
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Justices of the Peace
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for this County as shall please to be
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present or any two or more of them to meet together at
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Hicks Hall
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or some
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other convenient Place on some day before the next Session to take & examine
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the account of the Executor or legal representative of the said Mr. Higgs of all
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Monies received and paid by the said Mr. Higgs in his life time since his
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last account as such Treasurer and Receiver And in Case a Ballance
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shall be found due to the County Stock the same is to be paid over to the
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said
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James Jefferson
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whose receipt together with the order shall be a
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Sufficient discharge to the said Representative and if the Ballance shall
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be found in favour of the Estate of the said Mr. Higgs then the said James.
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Jefferson is hereby authorized and required to pay the same to the said
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Representative out of the Proper Stock of this County taking a receipt
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for the same to be allowed in his first account as Treasurer or received
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And it is hereby further ordered that the said Representatives do
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forthwith deliver over to the said Justices who shall Examine the
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said Account or to the
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of the said County or his
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Deputy all the Accounts and Vouchers and other Books Papers &
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writings belonging to this County and remaining in his Hands
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as
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or receiver as aforesaid at the time of his Decease And.
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the said Justices are desired to make their report of the matters aforesd.
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at the next Sessions on the County day of the same Sessions.
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