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And be it further Enacted, That all such Accounts, Bonds, Notes,
or other Demands, any of the said Prisoner or Prisoners have against
any Person or Persons whatsoever, be, by the said Prisoner or Pris-
oners Assigned to the Sheriff in whose Custody such Prisoner or
Prisoners shall be or are at the Time of their Discharge, and that
such Sheriff or Sheriffs shall and may maintain an Action or Actions
on such Demands, as Assignee of such Prisoner or Prisoners in his
own Name.
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Proviso.
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Provided always, That such Creditor or Creditors demand of such
Sheriff to Sue, and give to such Sheriff a Bond to imdemnify him
against any Charge that may accrue to such Sheriff by means of
Suing, and in case of a Recovery that then the Sheriff make distri-
bution of what shall be recovered, to the Person or Persons giving
him such Security as aforesaid.
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Liber
B. L. C.
p. 265
Ch. XVII.
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An Act to enable Caleb Dorsey of Ann Arundel County Gentleman
to sell and dispose of forty nine Acres of Land part of the Estate
of Mary Woodward and Elizabeth Woodward Infants.
Whereas Elizabeth Ginn in her Own Right William Woodward
and Mary Holmes Trustees Devisees and Executors of Mary Wood-
ward deceased by their Deed dated the thirtieth day of September
one Thousand seven hundred thirty and six for the Consideration
therein mentioned sold and Conveyed to Achsah Woodward for Life
without Impeachment of Waste and from and after her death to her
Two Daughters the said Mary Woodward and Elizabeth Woodward
their heirs and Assigns to be equally Divided between them as Ten-
ants in common the several following Tracts of Land Lying in Ann
Arundel County aforesaid Viz. Dorsey's Addition Upper Taunton
Burntwood and Howards Interest and all other the Lands to the said
several Tracts adjoyning as the same are contained within the metes
and Bounds mentioned in a Survey Lately made by Master Henry
Ridgely and Expressed in the said Deed as may appear by the Land
Records of Ann Arundel County And Whereas the said Caleb Dorsey
has by his petition represented to this General Assembly that the said
Achsah is since Dead and the said Mary and Elizabeth her said
Children are now Living and to whom the said Caleb is Grandfather
and Guardian and further that the said Caleb has an Oppertunity of
Letting upon Lease the said Lands for the benefit of the said Orphans
if he Could be Enabled to sell forty nine Acres part of the said Lands
contained in the said Survey in fee for thirty Pounds Sterling which
is offered to the said Caleb and which upon a Valuation made by
Charles Carroll Esquire and Master John Worthington is reckoned
to be the utmost Price the said forty nine Acres can be Worth and
also that the said Caleb Dorsey proposes to place the said money at
Interest for the Benefit of the said Orphans and in Trust to the same
uses as the said Land is Settled Wherefore the said Caleb [petitions]
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