406 Assembly Proceedings, March 23-April 19, 1774.

Liber R. G.
1774

such Debtor or Debtors expose to sale in the Presence of the said Jus-
tices such Debtor or Debtors and the Time of his or their Servitude to
the Highest bidder and the Money arising from such sale shall be
as effects of such Debtor or Debtors in the hands of the respective
Sherriffs Subject as aforesaid to a Distribution in Manner afore-
said and the sale and service of such Debtor or Debtors as aforesaid
is hereby directed to be taken as full and sufficient Acquital and dis-
charge 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 Satisfaction to their Creditors by servi-
tude 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
oblidged 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 dis-
charged upon the same Terms and in the same Manner that Persons
having Families are by this Act directed to be discharged

[Proviso.]

Provided always that this Act shall not extend to the discharging
of any Person or Persons hereinbefore Mentioned from his her or
their Imprisonment for or by Reason of any Criminal Matter what-
soever any thing herein Contained to the Contrary Notwithstanding.

By the lower house of
Assembly April 18.^th 1774
Read and Assented to
Signed by Order
Jn.^o Duckett Cl. Lo Ho.

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On Behalf of the Right
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince I Will this be a Law
Rob.^t Eden.
the great seal
in wax appendant

By the Upper House of
Assembly April 18.^th 1774
Read & assented to
Signed by order
James Brooks
Cl. Up.' Ho.

No. 23

p. 354

An Act for the regulating the Gauging of Casks in the Town of
Baltimore

[Preamble.]

Whereas Great abuses are daily committed in the Buying and
Selling of Wine Rum and other Liquid Merchandizes in dispor-
tionable Casks in Baltimore Town which have been usually gauged
by the diagonal which is known not to be an exact Rule to find the

[Persons not
to sell any
Cask of
liquid Mer-
chandize
before the
Gauger shall
have marked
on the Head
the full Con-
tents, under
Penalty.]

Contents of a disproportionable cask and the Persons selling such
commodities commonly refusing to Submit to any other Method or
Rule of Gauging the Purchaser is thereby imposed Upon and often
Suffers great Loss in want of Just Measure for the redress of
which abuse for the future in the Town aforesaid
Be it enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary by
and with the advice and consent of his Governor & the Upper and
Lower houses of Assembly And the Authority of the same that if