48 Assembly Proceedings, November 1-December 20, 1765.

U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
Nov. 12

Present as Yesterday
Read and referred to the Consideration of the Lower House, the
Petitions of Luke Gill, Stephen Johnson, and John Knox Prisoners
in Ann Arundel County Goal; & John Hughes a Prisoner in Balti-
more County Goal.
Read & rejected the Petition of Thomas Collins

Adjourned until 3 ^oClock in the Afternoon

Eodem Die post Meridiem
This House met according to Adjournment

Present as in the Morning
Adjourned until 10 ^oClock Tomorrow Morning

Nov. 14

Thursday Morning November 14. 1765
This House met according to Adjournment
Present as Yesterday

p. 219

Read the second Time the Bill entitled an Act for the Relief of
several languishing Prisoners therein mentioned, and will pass with
the Amendments annexed Viz.^t
After the Word "notwithstanding" in the last Line of the second
Page, insert the following Proviso "Provided also that the respective
Sheriffs of the Counties aforesaid shall be first payed and satisfied
their Imprisonment Fees before any Creditor or Creditors shall
have or receive any Share or Part of the Effects of the said
Prisoners respectively or the Produce thereof"
After the Word "Sheriffs" in the 5.^th Line of the last Page,
leave out the Residue of that enacting Clause and insert as follows
"in Manner following paid and satisfied (that is to say) after Satis-
faction of the aforesaid Imprisonment Fees that the Estate and
Interest of the aforesaid Prisoners respectively upon which their
Judgment Creditors or any claiming or that shall claim under them
by Assignment or otherwise have or shall have any Lien or the
Produce thereof shall be in the first Place after Satisfaction of the
Sheriffs as aforesaid applied to the Discharge of the said Creditors
according to the Order or Priority of their Judgments and the Lien
arising therefrom and that the Residue of the Estate and Interest
of the said Prisoners respectively or the Produce thereof shall be
distributed among all the Creditors that shall apply therefore within
30 Days after the aforesaid Sale in equal Proportion to their
Demands.
And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid that if any
of the Prisoners intended by this Act to be relieved are & shall be