Arts. 531

tioners may be relieved, according to their Prayers, and that it may
be Enacted,
And be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary,

Liber H. S.
No. 1

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 Creditors of the said
Constantine Bull, John Hayes, William Grace, Anne Garrish, John
Hunt, John Green, John Nimmo, John Temple Parsons, William
Maynard, William Greenwood, Peter Johnson, Goven Dunbar,
Charles Mac Carthy, Lewis Deford, John Bush, Edward Dossey,
Joseph Thompson, Abraham Dean, Patrick Carroll, Adam Gough,
Elizabeth Grant, Thomas Somes, John Maccauly, Richard Walms-
ley, John Glover, Richard Clark, James Tapper, Thomas Collins,
Philip Lynham, Robert Mark, Thomas Catterall, John Bell, Jacob
Myres, John Berisford, Thomas Thompson, George Clarke, John
Brown, and Thomas Wyley, 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, go to the Sheriffs of the
Counties of Csecil, Kent, Queen-Anne's, Talbot, Dorchester, Somer-

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

set, Baltimore, Anne-Arundel, Frederick, Prince-George's, and
Calvert, within twenty Days next after the End of this Session of
Assembly, and give good and sufficient Security to pay the Imprison-
ment Fees, as settled by Law, that shall or may become due from the
said Prisoners respectively, after the End of the said twenty Days,
and also find the said Prisoners sufficient Meat, Drink, and Clothing,
during their future Imprisonment; and in Case they the said Pris-
oners shall deliver up and surrender, or cause to be delivered up and
surrendered, to the Sheriffs of the Counties aforesaid, in the Pres-
ence of two Justices of the Peace of the said Counties, whom the
said Sheriffs are hereby required to summon, on the Request of the
said Prisoners, at some convenient Time after the Receipt of this
Act, not exceeding ten Days, all their real and personal Estate, either
in Possession, Reversion, Remainder, or in Trust, or in or unto
which they have any Claim or Interest whatsoever, and likewise
before the Day before mentioned, convey, assign, transfer, and make
over, unto the Sheriffs of Csecil, Kent, Queen-Anne's, Talbot, Dor-
chester, Somerset, Baltimore, Anne-Arundel, Frederick, Prince-
George's, and Calvert Counties, for the Use of the said Creditors,
all such their Estate, Interest, or Claim, as aforesaid, after such
Manner as by the said Sheriffs, 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 as shall claim
Benefit thereof, so that the said Prisoners be not burthened with
any Warrantees thereby, other than from themselves, or those claim-
ing by from or under them, and that the said Prisoners, at the

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