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

Liber R. G.
1774
[A private
Act.]

in very Considerable sums of Money much more than he is able to
pay that he now stands committed to the Sheriff of Ann Arundel
County for the want of Special Bail That Executions against his
person are obtained and now lie in the County office and Prayed this
General Assembly to Pass a Bill for his releif that on delivering up
all his Estate to his Creditors his person may be free from any arrest
for any Debts now due which this General Assembly hath been
Pleased to Grant

Be it therefore Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary by and with the advice and consent of his Governor and
the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly and the Authority of
the same that in Case the said Henry Gassaway shall deliver up
and surrender or cause to be delivered up and Surrendered to the
Sheriff of Ann Arundel County aforesaid in the Presence of two Jus-
tices of the Peace of the County aforesaid whom the said Sheriff is
hereby required to summon at the request of the said Henry Gassa-
way at some convenient Time after the End this Session of As-
sembly all his real and personal Estate either in possession reversion
remainder or in trust or in or unto which he hath any claim or
interest whatsoever and likewise convey, assign transfer, and make
over unto the said Sheriff for the use of his Creditors all such
his Estate Interest or Claim as aforesaid after such manner as by
the said Sheriff and by the Major Part of his Creditors or such of
them as shall think fit to direct therein or their Counsel Learned
in the Law shall reasonably devise or require at the cost and charge
of the Persons who shall claim benefit thereof so that the said
Henry Gassaway be not burthened with any Warrantee thereby
other than against himself or those claiming by from or under him
and that the said Henry Gassaway at the time of such his Sur-
render and transfering his Estate as aforesaid shall take the follow-
ing Oath before the said two Justices Viz.^t "I Henry Gassaway
do solemnly swear that the goods, debts and effects which I have
delivered, assigned and made over to the Sheriff of Ann Arundel
County in Trust for the use of my Creditors is the whole Estate
both real and personal of my own in Possession or that I have
any title to in the World and that I have not any Estate Goods or

p. 359

Effects of any kind whatsoever left either in Possession Reversion
or remainder (the necessary apparel of myself Wife and Children ex-
cepted) and that I have not directly or indirectly sold leased or other-
wise 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
and may be Lawful for the Sheriff of the County aforesaid to dis-
charge the said Henry Gassaway and Suffer him to go at large

And be it further Enacted that if the said Henry Gassaway shall
be arrested or imprisoned or any Process sued out on Judgment