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any matter or thing requireing of him to be done by this Act that then
the said Samuel Lyle or the said Sherriff may Enter a Common Ap-
pearance w^thout Speciall Bayle to any such Action as shall be so
brought against them or Either of them and plead thereto the Generall
Issue and Give this Act or the Exemplification thereof with the speciall
matter thereon arizeing in Evidence and that in Case the Plaintif
shall be nonsuited in such Action the Defendant shall Recover against
him double Costs of suit any Law Statute usage or Custom to the
Contrary notwithstanding And be it further Enacted by the same
Authority Advice and Consent aforesaid that the sherriff of the
same County of Calvert aforesaid shall after such Surrender and
Delivering up as aforesaid Give Publick notice at the Churches
Court house and Mills in the said County of some precise time by him
the said Sherriff and the said two Justices to be appointed for the
Distribution of the said Samuels Effects and Estate not Less then
twenty days after the time of the Makeing the said surrender and
shall then and there in the psence of two such Justices as aforesaid
and by their Advice and Directions make distribution of the said
Samuels Estate so as aforesaid to be Surrounded delivered up or
Tranceferred amongst such of the said Samuels Creditors onely as
shall then by themselves or their Lawfull Attorny or Attornys think
fitt to be present at such distribution by an Equall and proportionable
distribution thereof to Every such Creditor with respect had in
proportion to the largeness of his or her Debt The Proceedings of the
said Justices and Sherriff in that behalf to be Certified to the said
Calvert County Court and their Lodged for the perusall of any the
said Samuels Creditors that shall require the same without any fee
to be paid for the same or for such lodging thereof Saveing the
Right of the right Honourable the Lord Proprietarie his heirs and
Successors and of all bodyes Politick and Corporate provided never-
theless that in Case the said Samuel shall be at any time after the
makeing such his Oath as aforesaid Convict of willfull and Corrupt
perjury thereupon that then the said Samuel upon such Conviccon
be adjudged to stand two houres in the Pillary and have his left ear
Cut of and shall be wholy deprived of any the Benifitts designed him

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by this law and shall be from thence forth liable to be prosecuted for
any Debts or Demands whatsoever in the same Maner as if this Act
had never been made anything therein before Contained to the Con-
trary notwithstanding.
And whereas Christopher Bateman of Kent County has likewise
Petitioned this present Generall Assembly that he hath had a Vexa-
tious and Troublesome Law suit with a Certain Laughlin Flinn of
the same County whereby he was forced to Expend the most part of
his small Substance and Estate, that the said Laughlin has since
obtained Judgment against him and thereupon taken him in Exe-
cution for the sume of thirty pounds Currant money and two thou-

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