Acts. 161

excepted) and that I have not directly or indirectly sold Leased or
otherwise conveyed disposed of or intrusted all or any part of my
Estate thereby to defraud my Creditors or to Secure the same to
receive or expect any profit or Advantage thereof, So Help me God"
It shall and may be Lawful for the Sheriffs of the Counties afore-
said to Discharge the said Prisoners and suffer them to go at Large —

Liber R. G.
1769

And be it further Enacted That if the said Prisoners or any of
them shall be arrested or imprisoned on any Process sued out on
any Judgment or Decree obtained against any of them for any Debt
Damages or Costs contracted owing or growing due before the end
of this Session of Assembly the Court out of which such process
issued shall and may discharge such Prisoners on Motion and if the
said Prisoners or any of Them shall be arrested or Imprisoned on
any Process for the Recovery of any Debt Damages or Costs con-
tracted owing or growing due before the end of this Session of
Assembly the Court or Justice before whom such Process shall be
returned shall and may discharge the Party arrested out of Custody
on his or her common appearance being entered without any Special
Bail — Provided That the discharge of the said Prisoners or any of
them shall not Acquit any other Person from such Debt Damage or
Cost or any part thereof but that all such Persons shall be answerable
for the same in such Manner as they were before the passing this
Act-

[To be dis-
charged from
future Ar-
rests on
Appearance,
&c.]

Provided always and Be it Enacted That notwithstanding the dis-
charge of the said Prisoners or any of Them all and every Debt or
Debts due and owing from him her or them and all and every Judg-
ment had or Decree obtained against him her or them shall stand
and be good and Effectual in Law to all Intents and Purposes against
the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Goods and Chattels of
him her or them and which he she or they or any other Person in
Trust for the use of him her or them had at the Time of the Discharge
of the said Prisoners or any of Them or which he she or they at any
Time hereafter shall or may be any way Seized or Possessed of or
interested in, to his her or their own use or in his her or their own

[Debts to
stand good
in case, &c.]

Proper Right either in Law or Equity (except the Wearing Apparel,
Bedding & Working Tools of him her or them not exceeding the
Sum of Ten Pounds Current Money) and it shall & may be lawful
for any of their Creditors their Executors Administrators or As-
signs to take out new Execution or Executions without any Scire
facias previous thereto against the Lands Tenements or other Here-
ditaments Goods and Chattels of the said Prisoners or any of them
(except as before excepted) for the Satisfaction of his her or their
Debts in such Sort manner and form as he she or they might Have
done if the said Prisoners or any of them had not be [en] taken in
Execution or Discharged by Virtue of this Act —
And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if any

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