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U. H. J.
Liber No. 36
Nov. 9
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full and sufficient Acquittal and Discharge against all Debts due
from such Debtor or Debtors before such Sale provided that in Case
it shall appear to the satisfaction of the said Justices that any of the
said Debtors have offered since their Confinement to make satisfac-
tion to their Creditors by Servitude and that their Creditors have
refused to accept the same that the Time such Debtors have been
confined in prison shall be deemed and taken as part of the aforesaid
five Years, and that they shall be obliged to serve only for such Time
as will Compleat five Years from the Day of such offer of Servitude.
And that in Case any such single Persons as aforesaid have been
confined in Prison for Five Years or any longer Time that the said
Persons so confined shall be discharged upon the same Terms and in
the same manner that persons having Families are by this Act
directed to be discharged So Endorsed and Sent to the Lower House
by Daniel of S.t Tho.s Jenifer Esquire.
Adjourned until Monday Morning 10 of the Clock
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Nov. 12
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Tuesday Morning 12.th of November 1771.
The House met again according to Adjournment
Present as Yesterday and Benedict Calvert Esq
Read and referred to the Consideration of the Lower House of
Assembly the Petition of the Rector Church Wardens, Vestrymen
and others Inhabitants of Saint Johns, commonly called King
Georges Parish. So Endorsed and Sent by Daniel of Saint Thomas
Jenifer Eq
Mess.rs Thomas and Moale bring up a Bill entitled "An Act to
enable the Commissioners for Emitting Bills of Credit to pay to
William Mills, John Peacock Peter Payne Executor of Ralph Price,
and Anne Gaither the Sum of Money therein mentioned." Read the
first and second Time in the Lower House and will pass, which was
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