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THE

FARMER AND MECHANIC'S

POCKET ASSISTANT.

IN TWO PARTS.

PART I....CONTAINING,

The most useful & necessary forms of writing, which commonly occur between man and man, with practical remarks....Instructions to Ju rymen, compiled and altered from an excellent work on the duty of Jurymen by a Learned Lawyer.

PART II.... CONTAINING,

TABLES of simple interest at 6 & 7 per cent. per anum-Table shewing the value of Dollars in Pounds Shillings and Fence- Table reducing Shillings and Pence to Dollars and Cents.

SECOND EDITION.

Revised & corrected, with many additions,by an ATTORNEY AT LAW.

EASTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY
GEORGE W. DESHLER,

at the Office of the

SPIRIT OF PENNSYLVANIA, NORTHAMPTON ST.

1819.

Fastern District of Pennsylvania, to wit.

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L. S.

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BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the first day of April. in the forty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, A.D. 1819, George ************ W. Deshler of the said district, hath deposited in this office, the Title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the words following, to wit:

"The Farmer and Mechanic's Pocket Assistant-In two parts. Part I .containing the most "useful and necessary Forms of Writing, which commonly occur between man and man, with practical remarks.-Instructions to Jurymen, compiled & altered from an excellent work on the duty of Jurymen, by a Learned Lawer. Part II...containing, Tables of simple interest at 6 & 7per cent. per annum-Table showing the value of Dollars in Pounds, Shillings & Pence -Table Redueing Shillings and Pence to Dollars & Cents. Second Edition.-Revised and corrected, with many additions, by an Attorney at Law."

In conformity to the act of the Congress of the U. States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled, "An act supplementary to an act entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts & books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving & etching historical and other prits."

D. CALDWELL, Clerk, of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Power of Attorney, common form

general

to receive a particular sum

to receive dividends on public stock

to vote for directors of a Bank

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to acknowledge satisfaction on Mortgage 33

Warrant of Attorney to confess Judgment

to acknowledge satisfaction on judgment

Revocation of a power of attorney,

Lease...memorandum of a Lease

of a Farm, common form"

Deed....common Form

Mortgage, General form

Acknowledgment of a Deed by man and wife, of same by a man.... see remark

of a Mortgage

of a Power of Attorney &c...see remark

Release, General release,

Indenture of Apprenticeship common form,

by the Overseers of the Poor,

Agreement, Articles of-between a housekeeper

and Lodger,

for the sale of an estate,

on a sale of Goods,

Will....

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Assignment of a Bond, by way of indorsement,

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Report of Arbitrators,

of viewers of a road,

Petition for Licence to keep a public house Page, 69

for laying out a road,

for review of a road,
for vacating a road,
for erecting a bridge,

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of reviewers of a road,

of viewers on a petition to vacate road,
of same on a petition for a bridge,

Order of paying a deceased person's debts.... see

reniark,

INSTRUCTIONS TO JURYMEN.

ᏢᎯᎡᎢ II.

Table....of Simple Interest at 6 per cent,

Table....showing the value of Dollars in Pounds,

shillings and pence,

Table....reducing shillings and pence to Dollars and

Cents,

Table....of Simple Interest at 7 per Cent.

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