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By adjornment on
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Thursday the tenth
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It is Ordered by this Court that Mr.
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be directed and employed and, he is hereby directed
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and sound against him at the sessions of oyer and Terminer
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for the County in January Sessions last for
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for a misdemeanor and estertion which the said
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moses Peters having declined, the
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the Sessions of Oyer and Terminer holden for this County
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in January last against
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(who was Clerk
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. one of his Maties
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of this County, for a misdemeanor
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obtained and brought his Maties writt of Certiorari
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retornable in Easter Terme now last past for
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removeing the said Indictment into his Maties Court
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of King Bench, It is Ordered by this Court that Mr
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at Law be directed and employed And
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he is hereby directed to prosecute the said Mo
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in the said Court of Kings Bench upon the said
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Indictment, Untill a trial be had there upon, and Ind
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be obtained against him (if found gu
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that the
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by Jury Or that
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by Jury or convicted by his own cous
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said Mr. Higgs be paid the c
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out of the publick money which
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