Acts. 409

before any Creditor or Creditors shall have or receive any share or
part of the Estates of the said Prisoners respectively or of the
produce thereof

Liber R. G.
1773

And be it further Enacted That after Publick Notice given by
Advertisements set up at the Court House Door of the County
Thirty days at the least of the sale of any the said Prisoners Lands
and five days at the least of the sale of any of the said Prisoners
other Estate, the said Sheriffs to whom any of the said Estates,
real or personal shall be surrendered and delivered up in pursuance
of this Act shall set up and expose such Estates to sale by way of
Public Vendue in the presence of one Justice of the Peace and the
Produce arising by such Sale shall be by the said Sheriffs in manner
following paid and satisfied; that is to say after satisfaction of the
aforesaid Imprisonment Fees that the Estate and Interest of the
aforesaid Prisoners respectively upon which their Judgment Credit-
ors or on any claiming or that shall claim under them by Assignment
or otherwise have or shall have any Lien or the Produce thereof
shall be in the first place after satisfaction of the Sheriffs as afore-
said applied to the discharge of the said Creditors according to the
Order and Priority of their Judgments and the Lien arising there-
from and that the Residue of the Estate and Interest of the said
Prisoners respectively or the Produce thereof shall be distributed
among all their Creditors that shall apply therefor within thirty
days after the aforesaid Sale in equal Proportion to their demands.

[Notice to
be given on
the Sale of
the Prisoners
Estates, &c.]

And be it further Enacted That all the Accounts Bonds Notes and
other Demands which any of the said Prisoners have against any
person or persons whatsoever shall be by the said Prisoner or Prison-
ers assigned to the Sheriff in whose Custody such Prisoner or Prison-
ers shall be at the Time of their discharge and that such Sheriff or
Sheriffs shall and may maintain an Action or Actions on such
Demands as Assignee of such Prisoner or Prisoners in his own Name

[Bonds, &c.
belonging to
the Prison-
ers, to be as-
signed to the
Sheriff.]

Provided always That such Creditor or Creditors require and de-
mand such sheriff to sue, and give to such Sheriff a Bond to indem-
nify him against any Charge that may accrue to him by means of
any such Suit and in Case of Recovery that then the Sheriff make
distribution of what shall be recovered, to the Person or Persons
giving such Security as aforesaid

[Proviso.]

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid That if
any of the persons intended to be relieved by this Act are and shall
be of sufficient Ability of Body to labour such Person or Persons not
having a Wife or Family as well as the aforesaid George Bolton
who hath intermarried since his Commitment to Prison and every
other of the Persons aforesaid who have or hath intermarried since
his or their Commitment to Prison shall be and are hereby obliged
to serve for a Time not exceeding Five years to any Person or Per-
sons who are or shall be inclined to purchase the Time of Servitude

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[Prisoners,
if single, or
married since
their com-
mitment to
Prison, to be
sold for Five
Years.]