Acts. 405

And be it further enacted that after Public Notice given by
Advertizement set up at the Court house door of the County thirty
days at y^e: least of the sale of any of the said Prisoners lands and
five days at the least of the sale of the said Prisoners other Estate
the said Sheriffs to whom any of the said Estates real or personal
shall be surrendered and deliverd 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 Im-
prisonment Fees that the estate and Interest of the aforesaid Prisoners
respectively upon which their Judgment Creditors or any claiming
or that shall Claim under them by Assignment or otherwise have or
shall have any Lien on the Produce thereof shall be in the first Place
after Satisfaction of the Sheriffs as aforesaid applied to the dis-
charge of the said Creditors according to the order and Priority
of their Judgments and the Lien arising therefrom 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 proportions to their demands

Liber R. G.

1774
f Notice to
be given of
the Sale of
the Prison-
ers 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 Prisoners assigned to the Sherriff in whose Custody such Prisoner
or Prisoners shall be at the Time of their discharge and that such
Sheriffs or Sheriffs shall and may maintain an Action or Actions on
such demands as Assignee of such Prisoner or Prisoners in his own
name Provided always that such Creditor or Creditors require and
demand such Sheriff to sue and give to such Sheriff a Bond to
indemnify 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 him such Security as aforsaid

p. 353
[Bonds, &c.
belonging to
the Prison-
ers, to be
assigned to
the Sheriff.]

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that if any
of the persons intended to be releived by this act are and shall be of
Sufficient ability of body to Labour such person or persons not having
a wife or family shall be and are hereby oblidged to serve for a Time
not exceeding five Years to any person or persons who are or shall be
inclined to purchase the Time of servitude of such Debtor or Debtors
and that the respective Sheriffs in whose Custody the aforesaid Debt-
ors or any of them are be and are hereby Authorised and oblidged to
summon two Justices of the Peace in the respective Counties at the re-
quest of the said Prisoners as soon as conveniently may be after the
end of this Session of Assembly and after giving five days Notice at
the Court Houses of the respective Counties of the intended sale of

[Prisoner,
if single, to
be sold for
Five Years.]