144 Assembly Proceedings, March 26- April 15, 1707.

Lib. L. L.
No. 64.

Creditors (be they Creditors by Specialty or by account
only proved) a portion Rate like according to the Quantity
of his or their Debts & that every Direction order bargain
Sale and other thing done by the said psons so author-
ized as afd shall be good and Effectuall in Law to all intents
Constructions and purposes against the said Debtor and his
heir or heirs Child or Children and ag^t all other Pson or Psons
Claiming by from or under him.

p. 281

And be it further Enacted that the Creditors so to be Com-
missionated or any two of them may enlarge the said debter
out of prison as soon as they please after such Comission
granted them and shall not Suffer him to be detained in prison
any Longer then they are Satisfyed that he hath upon oath
made a true Discovery of all his Estate and after the said
Debtor now in prison is Inlarged he shall Never he imprisoned
or sued again for any Debt that he now ows and all his Cre-
ditors are by this Act Compelled to take their portion rate Like
as af^d or Else to loose their whole Debt and all the Cost &
Charge that shall accrue by such Comission and warning and
meeting of the Creditors shall be paid by the said Commis-
sioners out of the said Debtors Estate two & a half p Centum
for the Commissioners Sallary before Division made of The
Debtors Estate :

Aprill the 9^th 1707

Read & Assented to by the house of Delegates.
Signed p order W. Taylard Cl h. D.

Aprill 10^th 1707

Read and Assented to by her Maj^tys hon^rble Councill.
Signed p order W Bladen Cl Council.

Aprill the 15^th 1707.

On the Behalf of her Maj^ty Queen Anne of England &c I
will This be a Law Jo: Seymour

An Act against forging and Counterfeiting of Forreign
Coyns Gold or Silver :

Forasmuch as Diverse Evill Disposed Persons have of late
forged and Counterfeited Severall Forreigne Coyns Comonly
Received amongst her Maj^tys Subjects of this Province for
Curr^t in paym^t to the great Damage of her Maj^tys s^t Subjects
being thereunto Encouraged for th^t there has not heretofore