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Session
Laws
Otherwise
the Debtors
to be dis-
charg'd on
surrendring
their
Estates.
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shall deliver up and surrender, or cause to be delivered up and sur-
rendered, to the Sheriffs of the Counties aforesaid, in the Presence
of Two Justices of the Peace of the said Counties, whom the said
Sheriffs are hereby required to Summon on the request of the said
Nicholas Hammond, Peter Topping, Edward Cooley, Henry Tem-
pleman, William Bafoot, Anne Rind, Mary Penn, Joseph Maccles-
ter, and Patrick Mac Vay, at some convenient time after the receipt
of this Act, not exceeding Ten Days, all their Real and Personal
Estate, either in Possession, Reversion, Remainder, or in Trust, 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 Sheriffs of Ann-Arundel, Somerset, and
Caecil, Counties, for the use of the said Creditors, all such their
Estate, Interest or Claim as aforesaid, after such manner as by the
said Sheriffs, and by the major part of such 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 and Charges
of the Persons as shall claim the Benefit thereof, so as the said
Nicholas Hammond, Peter Topping, Edward Cooley, Henry Tem-
pleman, William Bafoot, Anne Rind, Mary Penn, Joseph Maccles-
ter, and Patrick Mac Vay, be not burthened with any Warranties
thereby, other than from themselves or those claiming by, from or
under them, and that the said Nicholas Hammond, Peter Topping,
Edzvard Cooley, Henry Templeman, William Bafoot, Anne Rind,
Mary Penn, Joseph Macclester, and Patrick Mac Vay, at the Time
of such their Surrender and Transferring their Estate as aforesaid,
shall take their solemn Oaths (or Affirmation if Quakers) before the
said Two Justices of the Courts aforesaid, to the Effect following,
Viz.
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The Oath to
be taken on
surrendring.
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I A. B. do Affirm, or solemnly Swear, that the Goods, Debts and
Effects which I have delivered, assigned, and made over to the
Sheriff of County, and in Trust for the use of my Creditors,
is the whole Estate both Real and Personal of my Own in Possession
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 of, or intrusted, all, or any part of my Estate, thereby to
defraud my Creditors, or to secure the same to receive or expect any
Front or Advantage thereof. So help me God.
It shall and may be lawful for the Sheriffs of the Counties afore-
said, after the end of the said Twenty Days, and the said Sheriffs are
hereby required to Discharge the said Nicholas Hammond, Peter
Topping, Edward Cooley, Henry Templeman, William Bafoot,
Anne Rind, Mary Penn, Joseph Macclester, and Patrick Mac Vay,
out of their Custody, and suffer them to go at large.
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