Acts. 335

Isaac Perkins to the View of this Assembly or constructed on the
General Principles thereof shall be and is hereby Vested in the said
Isaac Perkins his Executors Administrators & Assigns for and
during the Space of Ten Years from the end of this Session of
Assembly
And be it further Enacted that if any Person shall at any time
during the said Term of Ten Years as aforesaid make construct
Vend or Sell within this Province any such Machine for Threshing
of Wheat without a License in writing first had and Obtained from
the said Isaac Perkins his Executors Administrators or Assigns for
that purpose or shall Purchase or use any such Machine as aforesaid
within the time aforesaid made by any Person other than the said
Isaac Perkins his Executors Administrators or Assigns or some
person Licensed by him or them for that purpose every person so
making constructing Vending or Selling Purchasing or using such
Machine shall forfeit and pay to the said Isaac Perkins his Executors
Administrators or Assigns the sum of Fifty Shillings Current Money
to be recovered by Warrant before one Justice of the peace with
costs of suit
Provided that the said Isaac Perkins his Executors Administra-
tors or Assigns shall not recover or receive more than one Penalty for
the making constructing Vending or Selling Purchasing or using
anyone Machine

Liber R. G.
1770

By the Lower House of
Assembly October 30.^th
1770 Read & Assented to
Signed by Order
Jn^o Duckett Cl. Lo. Ho

On behalf of the Right
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince I will this be a Law
Rob.^t Eden

By the Upper House of
Assembly Oct.^r 30^th 1770
Read & Assented to
Signed by Order
U Scott Cl. Up. Ho.

the great seal in
wax appendant

N.^o 20 An Act for the Relief of Thomas Weems
Whereas Thomas Weems of Ann Arundel County by his humble
Petition to this General Assembly hath set forth that he is Indebted
in very Considerable Sums of Money much more than he is able to
pay that he is now in the Custody of the Sheriff of Ann Arundel
County and can never hope to pay his Debts or procure a Mainte-
nance without Obtaining his Liberty and prayed this General As-
sembly to pass a Bill for his Relief that on delivering up all his
Estate to his Creditors his person may be free from any arrest for
any Debts now due which this General Assembly hath been pleased
to grant

p. 72
[Preamble.]

Be it therefore Enacted by the right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary by and with the Advice and consent of his Lordships Gov-
ernor and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the
Authority of the same that in case the said Thomas Weems shall

[Thomas
Weems to
deliver up
and sur-
render, on
Oath, before