504 Assembly Proceedings, June 29-July 22, 1699.

Lib. L. L.

That when any Writt is issued forth upon a Bond taken in his
Matys Name it shall be Endorsed on the back side as fol-
loweth, if a Navigation Bond for whom the person was bound
for and in What Year if a Sherr Bond att whose request and
Prayer it was sued or bond taken in any of his Matys Offices

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in this Province it shall be Endorsed att whose request it was
Sued and for want of Such Endorsment the Writt shall abate
and the party grieved shall recover his Cost against the
Attorney that sued forth the said Writt And be it further
Enacted by the Authority afores^d that upon any Presentment
of the Grand Jury upon the breach of any of the Penall Laws
of this Province Save that for Suppressing of Criminalls and
trying of them in the County Court if the pty presented Con-
fesses his Crime and Submitts to the Court the Clerk of the
Indictments shall have his ffee for the Same but if the Party
Traverse and Putts himselfe upon a Iury then the said Clark
to have Two hundred Pounds of Tobbacco ffee and that upon
any Presentment grounded upon the Law for Suppressing
Criminalls upon any Statute of England if Bill be found by
the Grand Jury the Clerk of the Indictments shall have Two
hundred pounds of Tobbacco ffee and that upon presentment
found in the Provinciall Court the Attorney Generall to have
four hundred Pounds of Tobbacco ffee.

An Act of directions for the Sherriffs Office in this Province

Forasmuch as Great Complaint have been made by many
the Inhabitants of this Province That great and many incon-
veniencys have happened and for the future may happen and
Accrew to Merchants and other persons Trading into or
Inhabiting in this Province who have Severall Debts and Sums
of Tobbacco due unto them from Severall persons in this

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Province who for Satisfaction of their said Debts have Paid
away and delivered to their Severall Creditors Sev^rall quan-
titys and hh^ds of Tobbacco and Such hhd or hh^ds of Tobbacco
have been received marked and Nailed by Such Merchants
and others trading into or residing within this Province as
aforesaid and thereupon the said Creditors have delivered up
unto the Said Debtors their Bills or other Specialtys given for
Security of the said Debts or otherwise the said Debtors have
procured releases and discharges for the said Debt Yet Not-
withstanding afterwards the Sherriffe of Such County upon
pretence of publick Debt due from the said persons Debtors
have seiz^d the said Creditors Tobbacco so received marked
and nailed as aforesaid and lying in the said Debtors Tobbacco
houses and by that means the said Creditors are left without