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Liber H. S.
No. I
[Preamble.]
p. 130
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Whereas John Shubbard, of Kent County, by his humble Petition
to this General Assembly, hath set forth, That he was arrested in
an Action of Debt, and imprisoned in Kent County Goal, for Want
of special Bill, in the said Action, about Seven Years ago, which
Debt, with the Charges thereon accruing by lying in Goal, he has
never been able to pay, and has lain in Goal ever since, and therefore
humbly prayed Relief by an Act to be passed in his Favor: And
for that the Truth of the said Petitioner's Allegations is made appear
to this General Assembly, and that his being in Goal can be no Benefit
to his Creditors, and that the said Petitioner hath given due Notice
of his Intention to apply for Relief in the Premisses: It is therefore
humbly prayed that it may be enacted,
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[John Shub-
bard to be
discharged
from Prison,
on deliver-
ing up his
Effects, on
his Oath.]
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And be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary,
by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor,
and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Authority
of the same, That unless all or any of the Creditor or Creditors of
the said John Shubbard, or the Attorney of such Creditor or Credi-
tors within this Province, shall, within Twenty Days after the
End of this Session of Assembly, go to the Sheriff of Kent County
aforesaid, and give good Security to pay the Imprisonment Fees
that shall or may become due from the said John Shubbard, after
the End of the said Twenty Days, and also, find the said John
Shubbard sufficient Meat, Drink, and Cloathing, during his future
Imprisonment; and in Case the said John Shubbard shall deliver up
or surrender, or cause to be delivered up or surrendered, to the
Sheriff of Kent County aforesaid, in the Presence of Two Justices
of the Peace of the said County, whom the said Sheriff is hereby
required to summon, on the Request of the said John Shubbard, at
some convenient Time after the Receipt of this Act, not exceeding
Five Days, all his real and personal Estate, either in Possession,
Reversion, Remainder, or in Trust, or in, or unto which he hath any
Claim or Interest whatsoever, and likewise before the Day before
mentioned, convey, assign, transfer, and make over, unto the Sheriff
of Kent County aforesaid, for the Use of his said Creditors, all such
his Estate, Interest or Claim as aforesaid, after such Manner as by
the said Sheriff, 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 who shall claim the Benefit thereof, so as
the said John Shubbard be not burthened with any Warrantees
thereby, other than from himself or those claiming by, from or under
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