274 Assembly Proceedings, October 2-November 30, 1771.

Liber R. G.
I77i

Goods or Effects of any Kind whatsoever left either in Possession
Reversion or Remainder (the necessary Wearing Apparel of myself,
Wife & Children & working Tools excepted) & 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 & may be lawful for
the Sheriffs of the Counties aforesaid to discharge the said Prisoners
& suffer them to go at large.

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

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 & may discharge such Prisoner 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 & may discharge the Party arrested out of Custody
on his or her common Appearance being entered without any special
Bail.

[Debts to
stand good
in Case, &c.]
p. 140

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.
Provided always, And be it enacted That notwithstanding the
Discharge of the said Prisoners or any of them all & every Debt
or Debts due & owing from him, her or them & all & every Judg-
ment had, or Decree obtained against him her or them shall stand
& be good and effectual in Law to all Intents & Purposes against
the Lands Tenements and Hereditaments Goods and Chattels of
him her or them & 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 Dis-
charge 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 proper Rights 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 Assigns to take out new Execution or Executions
without any Scire facias previous thereto against the Lands Tene-
ments or other Hereditaments Goods & Chattels of the said Prison-
ers or any of them (except as before excepted) for the Satisfaction
of his her or their Debts in such Sort, Manner & Form as he she