Acts. 439

shall be Amerced or for the sum and Costs recovered against the
Person or Persons taken on Execution against the said Sheriff or
Coroner the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs his her or their Executors or
Administrators shall make Appear to the Satisfaction of the Justices
aforesaid a Demand by him her or them or his her or their Attorney at
Law made of or from the Sheriff or Coroner aforesaid of the
Sum in which such Sheriff or Coroner shall be Amerced or of the
sum and Costs recovered against the Person or Persons taken on
Execution as aforesaid and also the refusal or neglect of the Sheriff
or Coroner to pay the same respective sums according to such
Demand and also that the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs his her or their
Executors or Administrators or his her or their Attorney at Law
in the Case of such Amercement as aforesaid upon the Return
of any Writ being mesne Process offered or tendered to the said
Sheriff or Coroner an Assignment of the Cause of Action when the
same Cause of Action shall arise on Contract whereupon the Original
Writ issued.

Liber H. S.
No. 1

And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that it shall and
may be Lawful for the Sheriff or Coroner who shall be Amerced
as aforesaid and unto whom any such Cause of Action arising on
Contract shall be Assigned as aforesaid and who shall have paid or
Satisfied the same to the Original Plaintiff or Plaintiffs his her or
their Executors or Administrators or Attorney at Law to bring Suit
thereon for the Recovery of the same under and by Virtue of such
Assignment and that the Defendant or Defendants his her or their
Heirs Executors or Administrators shall have the same full Ad-
vantage and Benefit of Defence on such suit to all Intents and Pur-
poses as he she or they might have or be entitled unto upon a Suit
Prosecuted in the Name of the Original Plaintiff or Plaintiffs

[Sheriff, &c.
amerced, who
may have
satisfied the
original
Plaintiff, &c.
may bring
suit, &c.]

By the Lower House of
Assembly 17:^th June 1768
Read & Assented to
Sign'd by Order
T. Wright Cl: Lo: Ho:

On Behalf of the right
Honble the Lord Pro-
prietary of this Province
I Will this be a Law
Hor° Sharpe

By the Upper House of
Assembly 17:^th June 1768
Read and Assented to
Signed by Order
UScott Cl. Up. Ho.

the Great Seal
in Wax Appendant

N:^o 11: An Act for the Relief of Joseph Scott of Worcester County
Whereas Joseph Scott of Worcester County hath by his Petition
set forth That a Negro Man Slave belonging to the said Joseph
Scott was committed to the Custody of the Sheriff of Worcester
County on Suspicion of his being the Murderer of a certain Henry
Selby and that the said Slave before he could receive his Tryal for
that Fact died in the Goal of said County wherefore the said Peti-

[Private
Act]