384 Assembly Proceedings, Oct. 2-Nov. 17, 1753.

Liber H. S.
No. I

and made over to the Sheriff of Talbot County, in Trust for the
Use of my Creditors, is the whole Estate both real and personal of my
own in Possession, or that I 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 wear-
ing Apparel for myself, 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 Profit or Advantage thereof: That then
it shall and may be lawful for the Sheriff of the County aforesaid,
after the End of the said Twenty Days, and the said Sheriff is hereby
required to discharge the said Daniel Hull out of his Custody, and
suffer him to go at large.

[To be dis-
charged
from future
Arrests on
Appearance,
&c.]

p. 128

And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That if the
said Daniel Hull, shall hereafter be imprisoned by Reason of any
Judgment or Decree obtained for the Payment of any Debt, Dam-
age or Cost, contracted, occurred, or occasioned, owing or growing
due before the End of this Session of Assembly, upon every or any
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 the said Hull's
producing a Duplicate of his Discharge as aforesaid, to release and
discharge the said Daniel Hull out of Custody, provided the said
Daniel Hull being so arrested, shall and do enter his Appearance, or
procure some Attorney to appear to every such Action and plead
thereto. And provided, That the Discharge of the said Daniel Hull
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 of this
Act.

[Debts to
stand good
in Case, &c.]

Provided always, and be it Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid,
That nothwithstanding the Discharge of the said Daniel Hull, all and
every Debt or Debts, due and owing from him, and all and every
Judgment had, or Decree obtained against him, 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
the said Daniel Hull, and which he, or any other Person in Trust for
his Use, had at the Time of the Discharge of him the said Daniel
Hull, or which he at any Time hereafter shall or may be any way
seized or possessed of, or interested in, to his own Use, or in his own
proper Right, either in Law or Equity, (except his wearing Apparel,
and Bedding, or working Tools, not exceeding the Sum of Ten
Pounds Current Money,) and it shall and may be lawful for any of
his Creditors, their Executors, Administrators and Assigns, to take
out new Execution or Executions against the Lands, Tenements, or