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No. i

respective Creditors, if they would accept of the same, and grant the
said Petitioners their Liberty, which seems so unlikely for them to
obtain, that (unless relieved by a particular Act to be passed in their
Favour, which by their said Petitions they have humbly prayed),
they must inevitably continue Prisoners for Life, and thereby their
Families utterly ruined: And for that the Truth of the said Peti-
tioners Allegations is made appear to this General Assembly, by
sufficient Testimony, and that the said Petitioners, and their Fami-
lies, are fit Objects of Charity, and that their lying in Goal can be no
benefit to their Creditors: It is humbly prayed that the said Peti-
tioners may be relieved according to their Prayer, and that it may be
enacted,
And be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprie-

[Prisoners
to be dis-
charged on
delivering up
their Effects
on Oath.]

tary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Gover-
nor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Author-
ity of the same, That unless all or any of the Creditors of the said
Thomas Lambden, Nathan Brittingham, Thomas Todd, Jasper Hall,
Daniel Wells, Benjamin Berry, Thomas Reynolds, and Edward
Dogan, or the Creditor or Creditors of any or either of them, or
the Attorney or Attorneys of such Creditor or Creditors aforesaid,
within this Province, shall, within Twenty Days after the End of
this Session of Assembly, go to the Sheriffs of the aforesaid Coun-
ties of Worcester, Anne-Arundel, Prince-George's, Frederick, and
Baltimore, and give good Security to pay the Imprisonment Fees,
that shall or may become due from the said Thomas Lambden,
Nathan Brittingham, Thomas Todd, Jasper Hall, Daniel Wells,
Benjamin Berry, Thomas Reynolds, and Edward Dogan, after the
End of the said Twenty Days, and also to find the said Thomas

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Lambden, Nathan Brittingham, Thomas Todd, Jasper Hall, Daniel
Wells, Benjamin Berry, Thomas Reynolds, and Edward Dogan, or
any or either of them, sufficient Meat, Drink and Cloathing, during
their future Imprisonment, in Case they the said Thomas Lambden,
Nathan Brittingham, Thomas Todd, Jasper Hall, Daniel Wells, Ben-
jamin Berry, Thomas Reynolds, and Edward Dogan, shall deliver
up and surrender, or cause to be delivered up and surrendered, to
the Sheriff of the County aforesaid, in the Presence of Two Justices
of the Peace in each of the said Counties, whom the said Sheriffs
are hereby required to summon, on Request of the said Thomas
Lambden, Nathan Brittingham, Thomas Todd, Jasper Hall, Daniel
Wells, Benjamin Berry, Thomas Reynolds, and Edward Dogan, or
any or either of them, at the Dwelling Plantation or Plantations, or
Place or Places, where before the Imprisonment of the said Thomas
Lambden, Nathan Brittingham, Thomas Todd, Jasper Hall, Daniel
Wells, Benjamin Berry, Thomas Reynolds, and Edward Dogan, was
the Place, or were the Places of Residence of the said Thomas Lamb-
den, Nathan Brittingham, Thomas Todd, Jasper Hall, Daniel Wells,