336 Assembly Proceedings, September 25-November 2, 1770.

Liber R. G.
1770

Two Justices
of the Peace,
all his real
and personal
Estate, to the
Sheriff of
Anne-
Arundel
County.]

deliver up and Surrender or cause to be delivered up and Surrendered
to the Sheriff of Ann Arundel County aforesaid in the Presence of
two Justices of the Peace of the County aforesaid whom the said
Sheriff is hereby required to summon at the request of the said
Thomas Weems at some Convenient time after the end of this
Session of Assembly all his real and Personal Estate either in Pos-
session, Reconversion, Remainder or in Trust or in or unto which
he hath any Claim or interest whatsoever and likewise convey assign
transfer and make over unto the said Sheriff for the use of his
Creditors all such his Estate interest or claim as aforesaid after such
manner as by the said Sheriff and by the Major part of his Creditors
or such of them as shall think fit to direct therein or their Council
Learned in the Law shall Reasonably devise or require at the cost
and Charge of the persons who shall Claim Benefit thereof so that the
said Thomas Weems be not burthened with any Warrantee thereby
other than against himself or those claiming by from or under him
and that the said Thomas Weems at the time of such his Surrender
and Transfering his Estate as aforesaid shall take the following

[The Oath.]

Oath before the said Two Justices viz — "I Thomas Weems do
solemnly swear that the Goods Debts and Effects which I have
Delivered Assigned and made over to the Sheriff of Ann Arundel
County in Trust for the use of my Creditors is the Whole Estate
both Real and Personal of my own in Possession that I have any
Title to in the World and that I have not any estate Goods or Effects
of any kind whatsoever left either in Possession Reversion or Re-
mainder (the Necessary Apparel of myself 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

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Advantage thereof so help me God" It shall and may be Lawful for
the Sheriff of the County aforesaid to discharge the said Thomas
Weems and Suffer him to go at Large

[To be dis-
charged, if
arrested or
imprisoned,
on any
Process, &c.
for any Debt
contracted
before the
End of this
Session, on
Motion, &c.]

And be it further Enacted that if the said Thomas Weems shall
be arrested or imprisoned or any Process sued out on any Judg-
ments or Decree obtained against him 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 the said Thomas Weems on Motion And if the
said Thomas Weems shall be arrested or imprisoned on any process
for the Recovery of any Debt Damages or costs contracted or grow-
ing due before the end of this Session of Assembly the Court or

[but shall
not acquit
any other
Person
from such
Debt, &c.]

Justice before whom such Process shall be returned shall and may
discharge the said Thomas Weems out of Custody on his Common
appearance being entered without any Special Bail Provided that the
discharge of the said Thomas Weems shall not acquit any other
person from such Debt Damages or cost or any part thereof but that