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tioned Henry Gassaway from having and maintaining any Action of
Escape against any Sheriff who hath Permitted any escape before the
making this act Provided nevertheless that in Case the said Henry
Gassaway shall at any time after making such Oath as aforesaid
be convict of willful and corrupt perjury thereupon or of a wilful
Breach or noncompliance with the Tenor of such Oath as aforesaid
that then the said Henry Gassaway shall Upon such Conviction as
aforesaid be wholly deprived of any Benefit intended to him by this
Act and shall from thenceforth be Liable to be prosecuted for any
debt or demands whatsoever in the same manner as if this Act had
never been made anything to the Contrary notwithstanding.
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 of the said Henry Gassa-
way his lands and five days at the least of the Sale of any of the
said Henry Gassaway his other Estate the said Sheriff to whom any
of the said Estate Real or Personal shall be surrendered and de-
livered up in Pursuance of this Act shall set up and Expose such
estate 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 Sheriff in Manner following paid and Satisfied That
is to say after Satisfaction of Imprisonment Fees that the Estate
and Interest of the aforesaid Henry Gassaway upon which his
Judgment Creditors or 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
Sheriff as aforesaid be applied to the discharge of the said Creditors
according to the Order and Priority of Judgments and the Lein
arising therefrom and that the residue of the Estate and Interest
of the said Henry Gassaway or the Produce thereof shall be dis-
tributed among all his Creditors that shall apply therefor within
thirty days after the aforesaid sale in equal proportion to their
demands
And be it further Enacted that all the accounts Bonds Notes and
other demands which the said Henry Gassaway hath against any
person or persons whatsoever shall be by the said Henry Gassaway
assigned to the Sheriff of the County aforesaid at the Time of his
Discharge and that the said Sheriff shall and may maintain an
Action or actions on such demands as Assignee of the said Henry
Gassaway in his own Name Provided always that Such Creditor or
Creditors require and demand the said Sheriff to sue and give to
the said 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 of the County aforesaid make dis-
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