468 Assembly Proceedings, May 24-June 22, 1768.

Liber H. S.
No. 1

And be it further Enacted That if any Action of Escape be brought
against any Sheriff or any Suit or Action against any Justice or
Justices for their performing their Duty in Pursuance of this Act
he or they may plead the General Issue and give this Act and the
Special Matter in Evidence and if the Plaintiff be nonsuit or dis-
continue his Action or Credit pass against such Plaintiff or Judgment
upon Demurrer the Defendant shall have and recover double Cost
Provided That nothing in this Act shall extend to barr any Creditor
or Creditors of the before mentioned John M^cPherson from having

and maintaining any Action of Escape against any Sheriff who hath

permitted an Escape before the making this Act

And be it further Enacted That in Case the said John M^cPherson
shall at any Time after making such Oath as aforesaid be convict
of wilful and corrupt Perjury thereupon or of a wilful Breach or
noncompliance with the Tenor of such Oath or Affirmation as afore-
said that then upon such Conviction aforesaid he shall be wholly
deprived of any Benefit intended him by this Act and shall from
thenceforth be liable to be prosecuted for any Debt or Demands
whatsoever in the same Manner as if this Act had never been made

Provided also That the Sheriff of Charles County aforesaid
shall be first paid for Imprisonment Fees before any Creditor or
Creditors shall have or receive any Share or Part of the Estate of
the said John M°Pherson or of the Produce thereof.

By the Lower House of
Assembly 21:^st 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 21.^st June 1768
Read and Assented to
Signed by Order
UScott Cl: Up: Ho:

the Great Seal
in Wax Appendant

N:^o 26:

An Act for the relief of certain Languishing Prisoners in the
several Goals therein mentioned

[Preamble,
with the
Names of the
Prisoners
relieved by
this Act]

Whereas Clement Spalding, Charles Holt Flower, Thomas Cooke,
Ignatius Edwards, John Higdon & Robert Huston of S.^t Marys
County Thomas Freeman, Richard Young, John Ruffe and David
Wilkinson of Calvert County Peter Roby, Presly Cahiell, Mark
Latimer, George Lovely, John Tallmage, Robert Wilson, Catharine
M^cDonal, George Waple, John Wade, Grace Pilkington, William
Hudson & John Lammond Joseph Nalley, John Luckett, Elisha
Harbin, Cornelius Maddox, Thomas Nalley and John Gilmore of
Charles County Joseph M^cCubbin, John Berry, Thomas Todd and
Thomas Town of Ann Arundel County Joseph White and Benjamin
Kidwell of Prince Georges County John Bain, Francis Harris, Wil-
liam Conhold, Thomas Dey, William Andrews George Grehon, Wil-