Acts. 249

and that I have not any Estate Goods or Effects of any kind what-
soever left either in possession Reversion or remainder (the neces-
sary Wearing Apparel of myself Wife and Children and Working
Tools Excepted) and that I have not directly or indirectly sold
Leased or otherwise Conveyed disposed of or intrusted all or any
part of my Estate thereby to defraud my Creditors or to Secure the
same to receive or expect any profit or Advantage thereof so help
me God: It shall and may be law full for the Sheriffs of the Countys
aforesaid after the end of the said five days and they are hereby
required to discharge the said Prisoners and suffer them to go at
large

Liber H. S.
No. 1

And be it Further Enacted that if the said Prisoners or any of
them shall be Arrested or Imprisoned on any Process Sued out on
any Judgment or Decree Obtained against any of them for any Debt
damages or Costs Contracted owing or growing due before the end
of this Session of Assembly the Court out of which such Process
Issued shall and may Discharge such Prisoner on Motion. And if
the said Prisoners or any of them shall be Arrested or imprisoned
on any process for the recovery of any Debt damages or Costs
Contracted owing or growing due before the end of this Session
of Assembly the Court or Justice before whom such Process shall
be returned shall and may Discharge the party Arrested out of
Custody on his or her common appearance being entered without
any Special Bail

[To be
discharged
from future
Arrests on
Appearance
&c]

Provided that the Discharge of the said Prisoners or any of
them shall not Acquit any other person from such Debt Damage
or Cost or any part thereof but that all such persons shall be
Answerable for the same in such manner as they were before the
passing this Act. Provided allways and be it Enacted by the
Authority aforesaid that Notwithstanding the Discharge of the said
Prisoners or any of them all and every Debt or Debts due and owing

from him her or them and all and every Judgment had or decree

Obtained against him her or them shall stand and be good and
effectual in Law to all Intents and purposes against the Lands Tene-
ments and Hereditaments Goods and Chatties of him her or them
and which he she or they or any other person in Trust for the use
of him her or them had at the time of the Discharge of the said
Prisoners or any of them or which he she or they at any time here-
after shall or may be any way Seized or Possessed of or interested
in to his her or their own use or in his her or their own proper right
either in Law or Equity (except the wearing Apparel Bedding and
Working Tools of him her or them not exceeding the sum of Ten
pounds Current Money) and it shall and may be lawfull for any of
their Creditors their Executors Administrators or Assigns to take
out new Execution or Executions without any Scire facias previous
thereto against the Lands Tenements or other Hereditaments Goods

p. 642

[Debts to
stand good
in Case, &c]