be it enacted by the Authority aforesaid that all Actions shall be
commenced and sued upon Debts and Demands now due, and which
arisen upon simple Contract as aforesaid /except as aforesaid/ within
6: Years after the End of this present Session of Assembly and
not after.
Provided always and be it Enacted that no Person defending him
or herself out of this Province or that shall remove from County
to County after the Debt or Cause of Action aforesaid shall accrue
as aforesaid whereby the Creditor or Creditors of such Person may
be at an Uncertainty of finding out such Person or his or her Effects,
shall have any Benefit by the Limitation & Restriction in this Act
specified.
In the continuing Clause instead of the Word six put ten.
Signed p Order J Ross Cl. Up. Ho :
Adjourned 'till three o' the Clock in the Afternoon
Eodem Die post Meridiem
This House met again according to Adjournment
Present as in the Morning with Col : Lloyd & Col : Henry.
A Bill from the Lower House by Mess.rs Carroll and Harris,
entitled An Act to repeal Part entitled, An Act replacing Part of an
Act laying an Imposition on Negroes, and on several Sorts of Liquors
imported, and also on Irish Servants to prevent the importing too
great a Number of Irish Papists into this Province, and to lay a Duty
upon Rum Sprits Wine and Brandy imported into this Province from
Pensilvania and the three Lower Counties on Delaware called New-
castle, Kent, and Sussex, thus endorsed.
By the Lower House of Assembly 4. May 1758.
Read the first Time and ordered to lie on the Table
Signed p. Order M Macnemara Cl Lo : Ho :
By the Lower House of Assembly 5.th May 1758.
Read the second Time and will pass.
Signed p Order M Macnemara Cl Lo Ho
Read the first Time in this House, and ordered to lye on the Table
Read the second Time by especial Order passed and sent to the
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