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And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if the
said Nicholas Hammond, Peter Topping, Edward Cooley, Henry
Templeman, William Bafoot, Anne Rind, Mary Penn, Joseph Mac-
clester, and Patrick Mac Vay, or any of them, shall hereafter be
Imprisoned by reason of any Judgment or Decree obtained for the
Payment of any Debt, Damage or Cost, contracted, occurred, or
occasional, owing or growing due before the end of this Seseion of
Assembly, upon every such Arrest, on any such Judgment or De-
cree, 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
Nicholas Hammond, Peter Topping, Edward Cooley, Henry Tem-
pleman, William Bafoot, Anne Rind, Mary Penn, Joseph Macclester,
and Patrick Mac Vay, or any of them, being so Arrested, to release
and discharge out of Custody the said Nicholas Hammond, Peter
Topping, Edward Cooley, Henry Templeman, William Bafoot, Anne
Rind, Mary Penn, Joseph Macclester, and Patrick Mac Vay, or any
of them, 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 Nicholas Hammond, Peter
Topping, Edward Cooley, Henry Templeman, William Bafoot, Anne
Rind, Mary Penn, Joseph Macclester, and Patrick Mac Vay, or
any of them, 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 Nicholas Hammond,
Peter Topping, Edward Cooley, Henry Templeman, William Bafoot,
Anne Rind, Mary Penn, Joseph Macclester, and Patrick Mac Vay,
or any of them, 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, had at
the Time of the discharge of the said Nicholas Hammond, Peter
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Session
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p. 9
To be dis-
charg'd
from future
Arrests on
their Ap-
peal ante
and plead-
ing this Act.
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Topping, Edward Cooley, Henry Templeman, William Bafoot, Anne
Rind, Mary Penn, Joseph Macclester, and Patrick Mac Vay, or any
of them, 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
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Debts to
stand good
in case the
Persons re-
lieved by
this Act
shall be able
to Pay here-
after.
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