shall be provided. The court adjourned until half-past 1
o'clock P.M. The court met pursuant to adjournment. Pres-
ident: Horatio Strong, Fuller Elliot, James E. Phelps, Esqs., a
ssociate judges. On petition of Thomas Ridding, of Sutton,
for a license to keep a house of entertainment at his dwelling
house, ordered that the clerk give him a license on his com-
plying with the requisitions of the law. The minutes being
read and approved by the court and adjourned without day.
Horatio Strong
April 12th, 1819
Pursuant to request, the associate judges assembled at the
temporary seat of justice. Present: Horatio Strong, Fuller
Elliot and James E. Phelps, Esqs., associate judges.
Robert E. Barton was appointed recorder of Meigs county,
and on producing his bond was duly sworn into office by the
senior associate judge, the bond having been approved. The
oath of office was administrated as follows: I, Robert C. Bar-
ton, do solemnly swear that I will faithfully and impartially
discharge the duties of recorder of Meigs county according to
the best of my abilities and understanding. Robert C. Barton.
Subscribed April 12th, 1819. The oath to support the Con-
stitution of the United States and the State of Ohio being also
administered, the associates adjourned.
Horatio Strong
State of Ohio, Meigs County, ss.
July Term, 1819.
Be it remembered, That on Monday, the nineteenth day of
July, 1819, the Court of Common Pleas in said county, at the
meeting house in the township of Salisbury-present, the
Hon. Ezra Osborn, president judge; Horatio Strong, Fuller
Elliot and James E. Phelps, associate judges-the venire for
grand jurors was returned and the following jurors empan-
elled, to-wit: Foreman, Daniel Rathburn; David Lindsey,
