Acts. 469

liam Jones, John Clay, James Oliver and Richard Treadwell of
Baltimore County William Banks Walls, John Metcalf, John Row,
Josias Talburt, John Alexander Brown, Christian Shock, John
Weaver, William Drown, Alexander Crawford, Richard Bealle,
Jacob Sharrer, Robert Martin, John Ross Mellan, John Waters,
Frederick Clabough, Thomas Witten, George Henback and Thomas
Davis of Frederick County Samuel Owens, William Ford, John
Kennerly Thomas Phillips and Arthur Marshall of Somerset County
Stephen Bissell, Mitchell King, Thomas Butler, William Handcock,
John Benson, George Grear, Daniel Handcock, John Permwell,
Ezekiel Claywell, Joshua Wheeler, David M^cCluer, Solomon Small-

Liber H, S.
No. 1

wood Jonathan Dyer, John Baker, Philip Gutterie, Christopher God-
love Schoglamer and John Cornwell of Worcester County Richard
Blackburn Jackson, Thomas Davis, Robert Porter, David Covenover
and Griffith Williams of Caecil County Nicholas Bowdle Hezekiah
M^cCotter and Robert Parkinson of Dorchester County George Har-
rington, William Dockery, Joseph Nevill, William Horn, Thomas
Farrell and Joseph Harris of Queen Anns County William Green-
wood, Benjamin Steed, Robert Phillips, John Briscoe and Patrick
Dugan of Kent County Benjamin Buckler, John Dart, Alexander
Anderson and Edward Power of S.^t Marys County and John Long
of Baltimore County by their Petitions to this General Assembly
have set forth That they have respectively continued Prisoners for
Debt in the Custody of the Sheriffs of the respective Counties afore-
said for a considerable Time Past and still continue in the like
deplorable Circumstances not being able to redeem their Bodies with
all the Estate or Interest they have in the World which they would
readily surrender up and part with to their several and respective
Creditors if they would accept of the same and grant the said Peti-
tioners their Liberty which sums so unlikely for them to obtain that
(unless relieved by a particular Act to be passed in their favour
which by their said Petitions they have humbly prayed) they must
inevitably continue Prisoners for Life And as the Allegations of the
said Petitioners appear to this General Assembly to be true and that
their lying Goal can be of no Advantage to their Creditors it is
humbly prayed that the said Petitioners may be relieved according to
their Prayers and that it may be Enacted

p. 710

And 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 in Case the said Prisoners shall deliver up and Surrender
or cause to be delivered up and Surrendered to the Sheriffs of the
respective Counties aforesaid in the Presence of two Justices of the
Peace of the Counties aforesaid whom the said Sheriffs are hereby
required to summon at the request of the said Prisoners at some
convenient Time after the end of this Session of Assembly all their

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[Prisoners
to be dis-
charged on
delivering up
their Effects,
on Oath]