162 Assembly Proceedings, May 21-June 16, 1730.

Session
Laws

Jacks, John Nicholson, James Mackintosh, Thomas Palmer, William
Gray, Thomas Davis, John Smith, Anthony Oneallis, John Libby,
and Alice Macklin, or any of them, or which they, or any of them
shall, at any Time hereafter, shall or may be any way seized or pos-
sessed of, or interested in, to their own Use, or to the Use of any of
them, or in their own proper Right, or in the proper Right of any of
them, either in Law or Equity, except the wearing Apparel, and
Bedding, or working Tools of them, or any of them, not exceeding
the Value of Five Pounds Current Money. And it shall and may
be lawful for any of their Creditors, their Executors. Adminis-
trators, or Assigns, to take out a new Execution or new Executions
against the Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, Goods, or Chatties
of the said Thomas Worsley, Benjamin Freeman, John Vines, John
Cornelius, Thomas Howard, Thomas Jacks, John Nicholson, James
Mackintosh, Thomas Palmer, William Gray, Thomas Davis. John
Smith, Anthony Oneallis, John Libby, and Alice Macklin, or any
of them, (except as before excepted,) for the Satisfaction of his,

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her, or their Debt or Debts, in such Sort, Manner, and Form, as he,
she, or they might have done, if the said Thomas Worslev, Benjamin
Freeman, John Vines, John Cornelius; Thomas Howard, Thomas
Jacks, John Nicholson, James Mackintosh, Thomas Palmer, Wil-
liam Gray, Thomas Davis, John Smith, Anthony Oneallis, John
Libby, and Alice Macklin, or any of them had never been taken in
Execution, or discharged by Virtue of this Act.
And Be it Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That if any
Action of Escape be brought against any Sheriff, or any Suit or
Action be brought against any Justice or Justices, for performing
their Office, in Pursuance of this Act, he or they may plead the
General Issue, and give this Act, and the special Matter in Evidence.
If the Plaintiff be Nonsuit, or discontinue his or her Action, or
Verdict passed against such Plaintiff, or Judgment upon Demurrer,
the Defendant shall have and recover double Cost.

Provided Also, That nothing in this Act shall extend, or be con-
strued to extend, to bar any Creditor or Creditors of the before-
mentioned Prisoners, or any of them, from having or maintaining
an Action of Escape against any Sheriff, who hath permitted any
Escape, before the making of this Act.
Provided Nevertheless, That in Case the said Thomas Worsley,
Benjamin Freeman, John Vines, John Cornelius, Thomas Howard,
Thomas Jacks, John Nicholson, James Mackintosh, Thomas Palmer,
William Gray, Thomas Davis, John Smith, Anthony Oneallis, John
Libby, and Alice Macklin, or any of them, shall, at any Time after the
making such their Oath or Oaths, or taking such Affirmation as afore-
said, be convict of wilful and corrupt Perjury thereupon, or of a
wilful Breach or Non-compliance with the Tenour of such Oath
or Affirmation as aforesaid, that then the said Thomas Worsley,