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Lib. B. L. C.
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der or intrust or in or unto which they have any Claim or Interest
whatsoever, and likewise before the Day before mentioned Convey
Assign Transfer and make over unto the Sherrifs of Talbot Charles
and Queen Anns Counties for the use of the said Creditors all such
their Estate Interest or Claim as aforesaid after such manner as by
the said Sherriffs and by the Major part of the said Creditors or of
such of them as shall think fit to Direct therein or their Council
Learned in the Law shall Reasonably Devise or Require at the Costs
& Charges of the persons as shall Claim the benefit thereof so as the
said Isaac Tunney William Pratt Richard Standforth & Samuel
Steel be not burthened with any Warranties thereby other than from
themselves or those that Claim by from or under them, And that the
said Isaac Tunny William Pratt Richard Standforth & Samuel Steel
at the time of such their Surrender and Transferring their Estates as
aforesaid shall take their Solemn Oaths (or Affirmations if Quakers)
before the said two Justices of the County aforesaid to be summoned
as aforesaid to the Effect following Viz.
I A B, Do affirm or Solemnly Swear that the Goods Debts &
Effects which I have Delivered assigned and made over to the
Sherriff of County and in trust for the use of my Creditors is the
whole Estate both real and Personal of my Own in P'ssion or
have any Title to in the World, and that I have not any Estate
Goods or Effects of any kind whatsoever Left either in Possession
Reversion or Remainder (the necessary wearing Apparel for my
Self, Wife and Children and Working Tools Excepted) and that
I have not Directly or Indirectly sold Leased or otherwise Conveyed
disposed off or Intrusted all or any part of my Estate thereby to De-
fraud my Creditors or to Secure the same to Receive or Except any
Proffit or Advantage thereof So Help me God.
It shall or may be Lawfull for the Sherriffs of the Counties afore-
said after the End of the said twenty Days, and the said Sherriffs are
hereby Required to Discharge the said Isaac Tunney William Pratt,
Richard Standforth and Samuel Steel out of their Custody and suffer
them to go at Large
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that if the
said Isaac Tunney William Pratt Richard Standforth & Samuel
Steele shall hereafter be Imprisoned by reason of any Judgment or
decree obtained for the payment of any Debt Damage or Cost or for
or by Reason of any Debt Damage or Cost Contracted Occur'd or
Occasioned Owing or growing due before the End of this Session
of Assembly but tht upon every such Arrest on any such Judgment or
Decree or for any such Debt Damage or Cost it shall or may be Law-
full for the Judge or Justices of the Court where any process shall Isue
upon Shewing a Duplicate of the Discharge of the said Isaac Tunney
William Pratt Richard Standforth and Samuel Steel being so Ar-
rested to Release and Discharge out of Custody the said Isaac
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