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Session
Laws
To be
discharg'd
from
future
Arrests
on their
Appearance
and pleading
this Act.
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And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if the
said Samuel Deavor, Michael faylor, William Burros, James Carter,
Sarah Butcher, and William Biggs, shall hereafter be Imprisoned
by reason of any Judgment or Decree obtained for the Payment of
any Debt, Damage or Cost contracted, occurred, or occasioned,
owing or growing due before the end of this Session of Assem-
bly, upon every such Arrest on any such Judgment or Decree, or
for any such Debt, Damage or Cost, it shall and may be lawful for
the Judge or Justices of the Court where any such Process shall
issue, upon shewing a Duplicate of the Discharge of the said Samuel
Deavor, Michael Taylor, William Burros, James Carter, Sarah
Butcher, and William Biggs, being so Arrested, to release and dis-
charge out of Custody the said Samuel Deavor, Michael Taylor,
William Burros, James Carter, Sarah Butcher, and William Biggs,
provided the said Prisoners, or either of them, being so Arrested,
shall and do enter his or their Appearance, or procure some Attorney
to appear to every such Action and plead thereto, provided that
the Discharge of the said Samuel Deavor, Michael Taylor, William
Burros, James Carter, Sarah Butcher, and William Biggs, shall not
acquit any other Person from such Debt, Damage or Cost, or any
part thereof, but that all such Persons shall be answerable for the
same in such manner as they were before the Passing this Act.
Provided always, and be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid,
That notwithstanding the Discharge of the said Samuel Deavor,
Michael Taylor, William Burros, James Carter, Sarah Butcher, and
William Biggs, all and every Debt or Debts, due and owing from
him or them, and all and every Judgment had or Decree obtained,
against him or them, shall stand and be good and effectual in Law,
to all Intents and Purposes, against the Lands, Tenements, and
Hereditaments, Goods and Chattels, of him or them, and which he
or they, or any other Person in Trust, for the use of him or them,
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Debts to
stand good
in case the
Persons
relieved by
the Act shall
be able to
Pay
hereafter.
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had at the time of the discharge of the said Samuel Deavor, Michael
Taylor, William Burros, James Carter, Sarah Butcher, and William
Biggs, or which he or they at any time hereafter, shall or may be any
way Seized or Possessed of, or Interested in, to his or their own use,
or in his or their own proper Right, either in Law or Equity,
(except the wearing Apparel and Bedding, or working Tools of
him or them, not exceeding the Sum of Ten Pounds Current Money,)
and it shall and may be lawful, for any of their Creditors, their
Executors, Administrators and Assigns, to take out new Execution
or Executions against the Lands, Tenements, or other Heredita-
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ments, Goods and Chattels, of the said Samuel Deavor, Michael
Taylor, William Burros, James Carter, Sarah Butcher and William
Biggs, (except as before excepted) for the Satisfaction of his or
their Debts, in such sort, manner and form, as he or they might have
done, if the said Samuel Deavor, Michael Taylor, William Burros,
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