252 Assembly Proceedings, November 1-December 6, 1766.

Liber H. S.
No. 1

finement to make Satisfaction to their Creditors by Servitude and
that their Creditors have refused to Accept the same that the time
such Debtors have been confined in Prison shall be deemed and taken
as part of the aforesaid five years and that they shall be Obliged
to Serve only for such time as will Compleat Five Years from the
day of their Commitment to prison and that in case any such
Single persons as aforesaid have been Confined in Prison for Five
Years or any Longer time that the said Persons so Confined shall
be discharged upon the same Terms and in the same manner that
persons having Families are by this Act directed to be discharged

[no date]
Read and Assented to
by the Lower House of.
Assembly
Signed p Order
MMacnemara ClLoho

On behalf of the Right
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince I will this be a Law
Hor,,^o Sharpe

Dec.^r 6:^th 1766
Read and Assented to
by the Upper House of
Assembly
Signed by Order
UScott Cl. Up. Ho.

the great Seal
in Wax Append^t

No. 21

p. 645

[Preamble]

An Act to Aid defective Common Recoveries
Whereas many Valuable Lands are held by the present Pos-
sessors under common Recoveries Suffered by Tenents in Tail and
in many Instances those Recoveries altho now grown Common
Conveyances in this Province have been so inartificially and defec-
tively drawn suffered and executed that the same are not aided
by the beneficial and use full Provisions of the late statute En-
tituled an Act to amend the Law Concerning Common Recoveries
and to Explain and Amend an Act made in the twenty Ninth Year
of the Reign of King Charles the Second Entituled an Act for
Prevention of Frauds and Perjuries so far as the same relates to
Estates per auter viae to remedy therefore such Defective Recoveries
and secure the Titles and quiet the possessions of those who do
and may hold under them

[All com-
mon Re-
coveries
heretofore
suffered, to
be good in
Law:]

Be it Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary
by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordships Governor
and the Upper and Lower houses of Assembly and the "Authority
of the same that all Common Recoveries heretofore suffered in
the Provincial Court of this Province by Consent and Agreement
of the parties thereto shall be good and available in Law to all
Intents and purposes whatsoever to dock and cutt off any Estate
Tail in any of the Parties thereto and barr the Issue in Tail who
can could or might claim as Heir of the Body or Bodies of any
of the Parties thereto and also to barr those in Reversion or
remainder who can could or might claim in Default of Issue of
the Body or Bodies of any of the parties to such Recoveries in
the same manner as if such recoveries had been legally and form-
ally Suffered and Executed notwithstanding the Tenant to the