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

Lib. L. L.
No. 1.

p. 140

And be it further Enacted that all and every the Atturney
and Atturnies who shall be Employed in the prosecution of
such suits shall put in security to pay the defendant all such
Cost and Charges as shall by the said Defendant be in that
Case Expended, in Case the Plantiff be cast in the suit
Provided likewise that no Bill, Bond, Judgement Recognizance
Statute Merchant and of the Staple and other Specialty what-
soever though proved and Certified as aforesaid, shall be good
pleadable or admitted in Evidence against any person or per-
sons in this Province wherein the Debtor and Creditor are
both dead, and the debtor thing in demand or Action above
twelve years standing.
June 4^th 1692 June the 2^d 1692
Assented by the Councill Board. The house of Assembly
Signed p Ord^r have Assented
John Llewellin Clk Signed p Ord^r
Hen: Denton Clk.

An Act prohibiting all Masters of
Ships or Vessells or any other persons
from Transporting or Conveying away
any persⁿ or persons out of this Province
w^thout Passes.

Whereas severall persons freemen within this Province
being Indebted to the Inhabitants thereof have been by Mas-
ters of Ships and other Vessells Transported and by others by
Land conveyed out of this Province, and also severall Ser-
vants who had time by the Custome of the Countrey Condi-
tion for Wages or Indenture to serve have been Transported
and Conveyed away as aforesaid to the great and Manifest
damage of their Creditors and Masters, The Delagates of this

p. 141

present Generall Assembly having seriously considered the
Inconveniency thereby accrewing to the good people of this
Province do pray That it may be Enacted and be it Enacted
by the King and Queens most Excellent Majesty by and with
the Advice and Consent of this present Generall Assembly
and the Authority of the same, that from and after the
Publication hereof any person or persons whatsoever who
shall intend to depart this Province shall give notice of such
his intended departure by setting up his name at the Sec^rys
Office for the full space of three whole months, and that if
within that time no person shall underwrite, the person respec-
tively so setting up his name as aforesaid, it shall then be Law-
full for the Governor Chancellor or Secretary of this Province
for the time being to Sign a Pass to any such Person to
depart this Province, for which Pass the Party shall Pay to the