Acts. 251

tively 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 and 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 their Creditors that
shall apply therefor within thirty days after the aforesaid sale in
equal proportion to their Demands

Liber H. S.
No. 1

And be it Further Enacted that all the Accounts Bonds Notes and
other demands which any of the said Prisoners have against any
person or persons Whatsoever shall be by the said Prisoner or
prisoners Assigned to the sheriff in whose Custody such Prisoner
or prisoners shall be at the time of their discharge and that such
Sheriff or Sheriffs shall and may Maintain an Action or Actions on
such demands as Assignee of such Prisoner or Prisoners in his
own name Provided allways that such Creditor or Creditors require
and demand such Sheriff to Sue and give to such Sheriff a Bond
to Indemnify him against any Charge that may Accrue to him by
means of any such suit and in Case of Recovery that then the Sheriff
make Distribution of what shall be Recovered to the person Or

[Bonds, &c
belonging to
the Prison-
ers to be
assigned to
the Sheriffs]

persons giving him such Security as aforesaid

p. 644

And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that if any of the
persons intended to be relieved by this Act are and shall be of Suffi-
cient Ability of Body to Labour such person or persons not having
a Wife or Family shall be and are hereby Obliged to serve for a
time not Exceeding Five Years to any person or persons who are
or shall be Inclined to purchase the time or Servitude of such
Debtor or Debtors and that the respective Sheriffs in whose Custody
the aforesaid Debtors or any of them are be and Are hereby
Authorized and Obliged to Summon two Justices of the Peace in
the respective Counties at the request of the said Prisoners as
soon as conveniently may be after the receipt of this Act and after
giving five days Notice at the Court houses of the respective Coun-
ties of the Intended Sale of such Debtor or Debtors expose to sale
in the presence of the said Justices such Debtor or Debtors and the
time of his or their Servitude to the highest bidder and the Money
Arising from such Sale shall be as Effects of such Debtor or Debtors
in the hands of the respective Sheriffs Subject as aforesaid to a
distribution in manner aforesaid and the Sale and Service of such
Debtor or Debtors as aforesaid is hereby directed to be taken as a
full and sufficient Acquittal and discharge against all Debts due
from such Debtor or Debtors before such sale

Provided that in case it shall appear to the Satisfaction of the said
Justices that any of the said Debtors have Offered since their con-

[Prisoners,
if single, to
be sold for
Five Years]