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dollar and twenty five cents, for every wagon and four horses the sum of one dollar. for every carriage and two horses the sum of seventy five cents. for every man and house twelve and a half cents for every footman six and a quarter cents. for every carriage and one horse thirty, sixty two and a half. for every horse or mule six and a quarter cents. Which is thus endorsed, viz: M. Nelson State of Maryland Frederick County, Set. Be it remembered that on this 15th day of February in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and fifty six before me the subscriber judge of the third judicial circuit of the state of maryland personally appeared William Wenner, Sammuel B. Preston and Ebenezer Grubb and acknowledge themselves, each severally to owe and stand justly indebted to the state of maryland in the sum of one hundred and thirty three dollars and thirty three and one third cents to be made and ----- of their bodies goods and chattels,

Lands and

tenements respectively for the use of the said state,

upon

condition nevertheless that if the above bound William Wenner will faithfully and diligently keep the ferry at Berlin, on the river Potomac with two boats and with two hands from day light to day light, from the first of march 1856 to the first day of march in the year 1857. and from an hour before to an hour after day light during said term and that he will not charge or receive any greater price for ferriage than allowed by law, then the above obligation