280 Assembly Proceedings, Sept. 5 -Oct. 3, 1704.

Lib. L. L.

No. 64.

but for the Comoditys so as aforesaid received paying to the
Sheriff his ffees for taking the said Comoditys
Provided that this Act nor anything therein contain'd shall
be Adjudged to Extend to Merchants Adventurers who trade
from England hither nor to the payment of any bill or bills of
Exchange between Planters and Merchants but in all such
Cases they shall be as they were before the making of this
Act Anything in this Act to the contrary thereof in any wise
notwithstanding.
This Act to continue for three years and to the end of the
next Sessions of Assembly After the three years.

September 30^th 1704 September 3o^th 1704

Read & Assented to by Read and Assented to by her
the house of Delegates Maj^tys honble Councill.
W Taylard Cl hD. W Bladen Cl Council.

Maryland October 3^d 1704.

On behalf of her Ma^ty &c I will this be a Law
Jo. Seymour

P. 74

An Act for the relief of Creditors in England ag^t Bankrupts
who have imported any Goods into this Province not
accounted for

Be it Enacted by the Queens most excellent Majesty by and
with the Advice and Consent of her Majestys Governour
Councill and Assembly of this Province And the Authority of
the same that if any person who is become bankrupt in Eng-
land and hath imported into this Province any Cargo of goods
and Merchandizes and the same Consigned to any his ffactot or
Agent in this Province who hath not accounted or shall not
have accounted for such Cargo to his principall (that is to say)
to the Bankrupt aforesaid before an Accon of Account be
brought against such ffactor or Agent by the Comissioner of
Bankrupt or before a legall demand made to have Account of
such Cargo to the said Com^r by the Agent ffactor or Attorny
of such Comissioner that the Com^rs of Bankrupts by vertue
of this Act may compell such Factor or Agent to Account to
them as he should have done to the Principall And the Comis-
sioners of Bankrupt shall be adjudged deem'd and taken to
have the same right to such Goods and Cargo and the produce
of the same as they have to any the Goods and Wares of the
sayd Bankrupt in England.