PHILIP F. THOMAS, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

1847.

and if the proceeds of the goods, chatties, property and
effects of the said individual, association of individuals or
body corporate, and the debtor debts due and owing to
him or them as aforesaid hereby committed and subjected

to the management and control of the said receiver or re-
ceivers shall not be sufficient to pay off and discharge
all and singular the debts and claims herein provided for,
then the party or parties to the petition or petitions
aforesaid shall be paid pro rata without regard to the
priority or amount of his or their claims respectively;

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provided always, that no attachment or execution, not

any mortgage, bond or deed, bill of sale or deed of trust
nor other lien in the law, except such has been hereto-
fore provided prior to the passage of this act for the
benefit and protection of mechanics, shall reach, hold,
bind or operate as a lien upon the goods, chattles, pro-
perty and effects of the said individual, association of
individuals or body corporate, nor upon any debt or
debts, money or monies due and owing to him or them
as aforesaid, so as to operate to the prejudice or disad-
vantage of the claim or claims of the persons in his or
their employ, nor to the prejudice or disadvantage of the
claim or claims of the furnisher or furnishers of ore,
clay, coal or other raw material as aforesaid, but the said
claims as heretofore designated and described, all and
severally shall be first fully paid and discharged, or as
far as the same can be done before any such attachment
or execution, or any mortgage, bond or deed, bill of sale,
deed of trust or other lien in the law, except as herein-
before specified, shall bind, hold, operate or take effect
as aforesaid.

Proviso.

SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty
of every sheriff or coroner who shall have any attach-
ment or execution directed against the goods, chatties,
property and effects of any individual, association of
individuals or body corporate engaged in mining or
manufacturing as aforesaid, carefully to examine and
enquire whether the said individual, association of in-
dividuals or body corporate be indebted as aforesaid,
and if so to exempt from levy a sufficiency of the pro-
perty of the character and kind herein mentioned to
meet, cover and discharge all such indebtedness in any
event whatever, and if the persons in the employ of said
individual, association of individuals or body corporate,
in the first section of this act mentioned and described,
or the furnisher or furnishers of ore, clay, coal or other
raw material as aforesaid, shall in any way suffer, be
prejudiced or injured by refusal to comply with, or

Refusal or

neglect.