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

Lib. L. L.

No. 64.

County afd shall be and is by this Act Impowered and Re-
quired to keep and retain in his Custody the said Thomas
Howell for all such Debts and Causes as he shall be assigned
over and particularly Expressed in such Indenture and shall be
deemed to be Chargeable for any Escape that may by the said
Howell be made from him in as full and Ample manner to all
intents and purposes as if the said Howell had been Committed
into his Custody by any Court or Courts of Law whatsoever
or taken by him by any process whatsoever Issuing out of any
Courts of this Province any Law usage or Custom to the
Contrary Notwithstanding :
Provided alway's that Nothing in this act shall be Deemed
to Debarr or hinder the Sherriffe of Cecill County for haveing
takeing and receiving all such just fees as to him shall be due
from the said Howell but for that he shall have the same
remedy for recovery thereof as if this Act had Not been made
neither shall the Sherriffe of Cecell County be lyable to any
action of Escape after such assignment for any Escape made
by the said Howell for or any Cause mentioned in such Inden-
ture as afd to be made between him and the Sherriffe of Kent
County aforesaid :

Aprill the 9^th 1707 Read and assented to by the house of
Delegates. Signed p order. W Taylard Cl h. D.

Aprill the 10^th 1707. Read and assented to by her Maj^tys
hon^rble Councill & Signed p ord^r W Bladen Cl Councill

Aprill the 15^th 1707

On behalf of her Maj^ty Queen Anne of England &c. I will
this be a Law. Jo: Seymour

p. 291

An Act for Recording in the Commissary Generalls office
severall Copy's of Wills and Inventorys and other proceed-
ings of the Late Deputy Commissary of Dorchester County.

Whereas in the year of our Lord Christ one Thousand
seven hundred and five a Certain Humphrey Hubbard was
Deputy Com^ry of Dorchester County & had taken the probat
of Severall Wills; Inventory's of Estates & Accompts of Exe-
cutors and Administrators w^ch he Carrying over the bay to the
Com^ry Generall's office lost by, haveing his boat and the
writings therein burnt but forasmuch as he had Copys of the
same w^ch he hath Affirm'd by oath to be true and produced
the same before this Present Generall Assembly being as fol-
loweth (that is To say)