Acts. 415

and their said appointment shall Certify in writing to the Sheriff in
whose Custody he or she shall be and the same Sheriff shall Twenty
days at the Least before the Time appointed for the said meeting affix
one copy of the said Certificate at the door of the County Clerks office
and another Copy thereof at the Prison door of his County at
which said day so to be appointed the said Justices or two of them
as well as the Sheriff are required to attend at the Court House or
Prison aforesaid and the Sheriff shall produce the body of such
Prisoner before the Justices who shall attend and also make known
to the same Justices the Cause or Causes of his or her Imprison-
ment and the Time he or she hath been actually Imprisoned under
such Committment as aforesaid And if it shall appear to the said

Liber R. G.
1774

Justices who shall attend that such Person hath been actually Im-
prisoned as aforesaid and it doth not appear to them or any two
of them from the Cause or Causes of his or her imprisonment or
by the allegation upon Oath of the Creditors or some of the Creditors
of the said Prisoner that the whole of the debts due and owing from
him or her amount together to two Hundred pounds Sterling Money
or the Value thereof then such Prisoner may deliver to the said
Sherriff a Schedule of his or her whole Estate Debts and Credits
and also deliver to the said Justice attending a Duplicate thereof
which Schedule and Duplicate shall be Subscribed by such Prisoner
before the same Justices who shall thereto Subscribe as Witnesses
and the Same Justices or any two of them shall thereupon at the

[Prisoners,
whose Debts
do not
amount to
more than
£200 sterl-
ing, to
deliver a
Schedule of
their Estate,
&c. on
Oath.]

request of such prisoner administer to him or her the following
Oath or Affirmation if a Quaker that is to say "I. A. B. do affirm
or Solemnly swear that the Schedule which I have delivered to the
Sherriff of County doth contain a full Account to
the best of my knowledge and remembrance of my whole Estate
both real and Personal or that I have any title to or interest in and
of all debts. Credits and Effects whatsoever which I or any in trust
for me have or at the time of my Petition had or am or was in any
respect intitled to in Possession Remainder or Reversion and that
I have not directly or indirectly at any Time since my Imprisonment
or before Sold Leased, or otherwise conveyed disposed of or in-
trusted all or any Part of my Estate Goods Stock Money or Debts
thereby to defraud my Creditors or to Secure the same to Receive
or expect any Profit or advantage thereof so help me God which
said Duplicate shall be by the said Justices transmitted to the Clerk

p. 365

of their County Court to be by him preserved in his office for the
better information of the Creditors of such Prisoner.

And be it enacted that all the real and Personal Estate of such
Prisoner either in Possession reversion Remainder or in Trust for
him or her or in or unto which he or she has any Claim or interest
whatsoever or which in any manner may can or might be subjected
to the Payment or Satisfaction of Creditors and also all causes of
29

[Such Es-
tate, &c. to
be vested in
the Sheriff,
who is to
sell the same,
and apply it
towards Sat-
isfaction of
the Credi-
tors, &c.]