Acts. 389

No. 35 A Supplementary Act to the Act entituled, An Act for the Relief of
Creditors in England against Bankrupts, who have imported any
Goods into this Province, not accounted for.

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 no Assignment, Assurance, Conveyance, Deed, or
any other Writing whatsoever of any Goods, Chattels, Effects,
Debts, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments whatsover, that shall
at any Time hereafter be made or executed, by any Person or Per-

Liber H. S.
No. I

sons trading, or that shall hereafter trade to this Province, and that
shall reside in Great-Britain, or elsewhere out of this Province, at
the Time of making or executing such Assignment, Assurance, Con-
veyance, Deed, or other Writing whatsoever, shall be of any Force,
Virtue, or Effect, at Law, or in Equity, until the Person or Persons
to whom such Assignment, Assurance, Conveyance, Deed, or other
Writing whatsoever, shall be made or executed, or his or their
Agent or Agents, Attorney or Attorneys in Fact, or such other
Person or Persons who shall act by Commission or Direction from
him or them, shall give his Bond or Obligation, with such Security
therein, as shall be approved of and determined by the Chancellor
of this Province, for the Time being, to pay and satsify all and
every the Debt and Debts, which such Person or Persons, making
or executing such Assignment, Assurance, Conveyance, Deed, or
other Writing, shall or may owe at the Time of entering into such
Bond or Obligation as aforesaid, to all and every Person or Persons,
living or residing or that shall live or reside, within this Province,
so far forth, as the Goods, Chattels, Effects, Debts, Lands, Tene-
ments, or hereditaments, shall come to the Hands or Possession of
such Agent or Agents, Attorney or Attorneys, or other Person or
Persons, acting by Commission or Direction as aforesaid.

[Assignment
of Good, &c.
by Persons
trading to
this Prov-
ince, &c.]

And be it further Enacted, That such Bond or Obligation to be
entered into for the Purpose aforesaid, shall be lodged with the
Register of the Court of Chancery of this Province, for the Time
being, to be by him kept and preserved among the Records and
Proceedings of the said Court; and that every Creditor, living and
residing within this Province, of such Person or Persons, making or
executing such Assignment, Assurance, Conveyance, Deed, or Writ-
ing, as aforesaid, if he shall think fit, shall or may make Application
to the Chancellor of this Province, for the Time being, for the As-
signment of such Bond or Obligation to be entered into as aforesaid,
and shall or may put the same Bond or Obligation in Suit against
such Person or Persons, to whom such Assignment, Assurance.
Conveyance, Deed, or Writing, shall be made or executed, and his
or their Securities, if need be, in any Court of Record within this
Province, for any Neglect or Refusal to pay or satisfy unto such
27

[Bond to be
lodged in the
Chancery
Court.]

p. 134