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any Creditor or Creditors shall have any share of the Prisoners
Effects, and if the said Prisoner's Effects shall not be sufficient to
satisfy the Sheriffs their Imprisonment Fees, that then the said Pris-
oners, or any of them, shall Satisfy and Pay to the Sheriff the residue
of their Imprisonment Fees; Provided that the said Sheriffs shall not
Prosecute, Detain or Imprison the said Prisoners, or any of them,
within Two Years after his or their Releasement; any thing in this
Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

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Laws

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That if any
of the Persons intended to be Relieved by this Act, are and shall be
of sufficient Ability of Body to Labour, such Person or Persons,
being unmarried and having no Family, shall be and are hereby
obliged to Serve a Term not exceeding Five Years, to any Person or
Persons who are or shall be inclinable to purchase the Time and
Servitude of such Debtor or Debtors as aforesaid, and that the re-
spective Sheriffs in whose Custody the aforesaid Persons, or any of
them, are, be, and are hereby, authorized, impowered and obliged,
at the first County Court to be held for their respective Counties next
after the end of this Sessions, and during the Time of Court sitting,
by Order of such Court, to publish the Sale of such Debtor, and the
Time of his or her Servitude, and the same may and are hereby
obliged to sell or dispose of to the highest Bidder, and the Money
arising from such Sale, shall be as Effects of such Debtor in the
hands of such respective Sheriff as aforesaid, subject to an equal
distribution to the Creditors of such Debtor or Debtors, and such
Sheriff is hereby obliged to distribute the same in equal proportion
to such Creditors accordingly.

Prisoners
to be Sold
if unmar-
ried, &c.

Provided always, That any such Debtor or Debtors being Single
and subjected to Serve as aforesaid, and being Sold for that purpose,
that then and in such case, such Sale and Service is hereby deemed
a full and sufficient acquittal and discharge against all Debts due
from such Person or Persons, before such Sale and Servitude as
aforesaid; any thing in this Act, or any Law, Statute, Usage or Cus-
tom to the contrary thereof notwithstanding.
And be it further Enacted by the Authority, Advice and Consent
aforesaid, That whatever Estate, whether Real or Personal, any of
the Prisoners aforesaid shall surrender or give up to any of the
Sheriffs in whose Custody they are or shall be at the Time of their
or any of their Discharge, shall, by the Sheriff or Sheriffs in whose

Proviso.

Custody such Prisoner or Prisoners shall be, in the Presence of One
Magistrate of the particular County where such Prisoner shall be
Discharged, be exposed to Public Sale, and Sold to the highest Bid-
der; and that after the same be done, and the Sheriff or Sheriffs are
paid, or secured to be paid, their Fees, the residue be applied to the
Creditors of such Prisoner or Prisoners that shall apply therefore
within Twenty Days after the said Sale, in equal proportion to their
Demands.

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Estates to
be Sold.