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"Interest in" in the same Line add the following words Viz^t "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" leave out
the words beginning in the eighth line of the same Page Viz.^t "And
that I have not any Estate Goods or Effects of any kind whatsoever
left either in Possession Reversion or Remainder." after the word
indirectly in the eleventh line of the same Page add the following
words Viz.^t at any time since my Imprisonment or before," after the
word "Estate" in the twelfth line of the same Page add the following
Words Viz.^t Goods Stock Money "or Debts" after the word "Trust."
in the third line of the fourth page add the words "for Him or Her,
and after the word "He" in the same line add the words "or She."
after the word "Justices." in the Tenth line of the sixth Page add the
following Proviso Viz.^t "And Provided also that before any Suit
shall be brought by any Sheriff aforesaid Notice shall be given
thereof in the Maryland Gazette for four weeks successively in
order that all the Creditors of such Prisoner may have an Oppor-
tunity if they shall think fit of joining in the Request aforesaid to
and Indemnification of the said Sheriff and thereby be intitled to
receive rateably what shall be recovered and the time from the
discharge of such Prisoner as aforesaid 'till such Suit shall be
brought shall not be affected by any Act for Limitation of Actions
and the Creditors who shall apply and receive any Sum or Sums of
Money of the Sheriff as aforesaid and shall refund and pay rateably
to such other Creditors as shall apply for the same thereafter the
Debt or Debts due from such Prisoner to him her or them so as that
the said last mentioned Creditors may receive and be paid in equal
Proportion to his her or their Demands and in case such Prisoner as
aforesaid shall be liable on a future Breach of a Contract by him or
her made or entered into before his or her Discharge the Person or
Persons who shall be entitled as a Creditor or Creditors of such

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Liber No. 36
Dec. 15

Prisoner under such Breach of Contract shall have and receive his
or her Satisfaction rateably of the Creditors who shall have received
the whole or a Proportion of the Debts due to them on such Distri-
bution as aforesaid, and to prevent persons who may be charged in
Execution from lying in Prison until they have spent their Substance
wherewith they should satisfy their Creditors and afterwards taking
the benefit of this Act when they have nothing left to deliver up to
their Creditors no Person who shall be charged in Execution from
and after the Expiration of this present Session of Assembly shall be
allowed or permitted to exhibit a Petition for the Purpose aforesaid
unless such Petition shall be exhibited within Thirty Days after his
or her Commitment or being charged in Execution." Leave out the
word "or" after the word "Descent" in the Eighth line of the seventh
Page, and after the word "Distribution" in the same line add the

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