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of the County of Washington to erect & keep a Ferry over the Ohio River from the Plantation where he now lives to the Virginia Side of said River, & to ask demand recover & receive of every Person who he may transport over said Ferry, a reasonable Compensation for the Service -- Hereby also requiring him to pro- vide good & sufficient Boats or Flats for the Purpose, & to give due Attendance to the same according to right & common Usage, And to govern himself in the Pre- mises by such Laws as may hereafter be adopted for the Regulation of Ferries -- so soon as such Laws shall be published in the Territory. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and caused the Seal of the Territory to be affixed. Dated at Marietta this 28th. Day of December A.D. 1789 -- & of the Independence of the United States of America the fourteenth Signed
Ar. St. Clair
By his Excellency's Command
Winthrop Sargent Secretary.

December 28th.
His Excellency was pleased to appoint Ebenezar Sproat Esquire Sheriff for the County of Washing- ton during Pleasure, & he was commissioned accordingly agreeably to Form, Page 21st. of this Vol: