482 Assembly Proceedings, May 10-June 9, 1692.

Lib. L. L.
No. I.

of this present Assembly if the Jury upon the Tryall of the
Issue in such Action or the Jury that shall Enquire of the
Damages do find or Assess the damage under forty shillings,
then the plant or plant^s in such Action or Actions shall have
and recover only so much Cost as the damages given or
assessed amount unto And be it further Enacted by the
Authority aforesaid that if any person or persons Entituled to
any the Actⁿ or Actions aforesaid, shall be at the time of any
such cause of Action accrewing within the Age of one and
twenty years ffeme Covert non Composs mentis imprisoned
or beyond the Seas that then such person or persons shall be
at liberty to bring the same Action or actions within such
times as are before limitted after their comg to or being of
full Age discovert of sound Memory at large or returned from

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beyond the Seas as other Persons having no such Impediment
might or should have done, and forasmuch as diverse disputes
have formerly arose, whither Persons absenting the Province
or wandering from County to County untill the time by the
late Act for the reasons and purposses aforesaid liffiitted and
allowed were Expired should have any benefitt thereby and
different Judgements given thereon in the severall and respec-
tive Countys within this Province, for that the said Act was
therein altogether silent.
Be it therefore Enacted by the authority aforesaid that from
and after the Publication hereof no person or persons whatso-
ever absenting themselvs out of this Province, or that shall
remove from County to County after any Debt contracted,
whereby the Credit^r or Credit^rs may be at any uncertainty of
finding out the said pson or psons or his or their Effects shall
have any benefitt by the limittations & restrictions in this Act
Specified, Provided allways and it is the true intent & mean-
ing hereof that this Act nor any thing herein Conteyned shall
be construed reputed or taken to p^rjudice or debarr any pson
removing himself & family from one County to another for his
convenience or any pson leaveing this Province for the Term
& time in this Act limitted from the benefitt thereof, he leaving
Effects sufficient & known for the paym^t of his just debts in
the hands of some pson or psons who will assume the paym^t
thereof to his Credit^rs any thing in this Act conteyned to the
contrary hereof in any wise notwithstanding.
4th June 1692. June 2^d 1692
Assented to by the Councill Board The house of Assembly
Signed p ord^r have assented
John Llewellin Clk. j Signed p Ord^r
Hen: Denton Clk.