Acts. 357

row, Thomas Brown, John Clark, William Austin, Robert Cardiff,
Thomas Vernall, and Daniel Hall, or such of them as shall be con-
victed as aforesaid, shall, upon such conviction, be adjudged to stand
Two Hours in the Pillory, and have his or their Left Ear cut off;
and shall be wholly deprived of any Benefit intended him, them, or
any of them, by this Law; and shall be from thenceforth liable to be
prosecuted for any Debts or Demands whatsoever, in the same Man-
ner as if this Act had never been made; any Thing therein contained
to the contrary notwithstanding.
Provided Always, That the several Sheriffs, in whose Custody
any of the Prisoners aforesaid are, or have been, shall be first satis-
fied their Imprisonment Fees, out of the respective Effects of the
several Prisoners before named, (save such Effects as are before
excepted,) for the Use of the said Prisoner or Prisoners, before any
other Creditor or Creditors shall have any Share of the Prisoners
Effects. And if the said Prisoners Effects shall not be sufficient to
pay and satisfy to the Sheriff his Imprisonment Fees, that then each
respective Prisoner shall, after his Releasement out of Prison, be
liable to pay and satisfy unto the Sheriff, the Residue of his Imprison-
ment Fees; Provided, that the said Sheriff, shall not prosecute or
imprison such Prisoner within Two Years after his releasement;
any Thing in this Act to the contrary, notwithstanding.
Saving to his most Sacred Majesty, His Heirs and Successors, the
Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, His Heirs and Successors,
and all Bodies Politick and Corporate, and all others not mentioned
in this Act, their several and respective Rights.

Session
Laws

An Act to Remedy defective Probats of Accounts, and giving
further Time for proving Accounts.

Whereas, by an Act, made at a Session of Assembly, begun and
held at Annapolis, the Tenth Day of July, Seventeen Hundred and
Twenty Nine, entituled, An Act providing what shall be good
Evidence to prove Foreign and other Debts; and to prevent vexatious
and unnecessary Suits at Law, pleading Discounts in Bar; and for
Repealing an Act of Assembly therein mentioned; it was amongst
other Things enacted and provided, That it should and might be
lawful for any Person to prove any Account of Good [s] sold, Money
lent, Work done, or other Matters or Articles properly chargeable in
Account, which became due at any Time theretofore, or should become
due before the Tenth Day of March then next, according to the
Directions of an Act therein recited, so as all such Accounts should
be proved as aforesaid, at or before the Thirtieth Day of August,
which was then to be in the Year Seventeen Hundred and Thirty :
And Whereas several Persons, through Misconception of the said
Act, have proved such Accounts, arising due as in the said Proviso

Chap. X

p. 20

[Amends
1729, ch. 20]