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Province as tending too much to the comitting of Perjury by many of
the more unwary and inconsidering Persons of this Province
Be it further Enacted by the Authority Advice and Consent af^d
that the severall Clauses in the before recited Act Obliging the taking
the Oaths of Receivers and Shippers of Tobacco together with the
Oaths be and are hereby repealed.

Liber LL, 4
Acts

An Act for the Releif of Robert Tivis, Andrew Castle and Gilbert
Powlson Languishing Prisoners in Ann Arundell County, George
Sexton a Languishing Prisoner in Queen Ann's County and John
Robinson a Languishing Prisoner in Talbot County.

Whereas Rob^t Tivis Andrew Castle and Gilbert Powlson of Ann
Arundell County, George Sexton of Queen Ann's County John
Robinson of Talbot County Planters have by their Humble Peti-
tions to this present Generall Assembly severally set forth that they
have continued Prisoners for Debt in the Custody of the sherriffs of
the several Countys aforesaid Viz. Robert Tivis, Andrew Castle
and Gilbert Powlson, in the Custody of the Sherriff of Ann Arundell
County, George Sexton in the Custody of the Sherriff of Queen
Ann's County and John Robinson in the Custody of the Sherriff
of Talbot County for some considerable time past and still continue
in the like Deplorable Circumstances not being able to redeem their
Bodys with all the Estate or Interest they have in the World, which
they would readily Surrender upp and part with to their Severall

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and Respective Creditors if they would accept of the same and grant
The said Petitioners their Liberty which seems so unlikely for them
to obtain, that unless releived by a particular Act to be past in their
favour which by their said Petitions they have humbly pray'd, they
must inevitably continue Prisoners for Life, and thereby their
Familys utterly ruined, and for that the truth of the said Petitioners
Allegations is made appear to this Generall Assembly by Sufficient
Testimony and allso the Occasion of their being brought to such
Circumstances does not proceed from any Idleness or Extravagances
of their own, And that the said petitioners and their Familys are fit
Objects of Charity and that lying in Goal can be no benefitt to their
Creditors It is humbly prayed that the said Petitioners may be
releived according to their Prayer and that it may be Enacted, And
be it Enacted by his Lordship the Lord Proprietary by and with the
Advice and Consent of his Lordships Governeur and the upper and
Lower Houses of Assembly and the Authority of the same, that
unless all or any of the Creditors of the said Robert Tivis, Andrew
Castle, and Gilbert Powlson, George Sexton and John Robinson or
the Creditor or Creditors of any or either of them or the Attorney
or Attorneys of such Creditor or Creditors aforesaid within this
Province within three Months after the End of this Sessions of

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