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tobacco and three hundred and fifty pounds Sterling and Six hundred
and Fifty pounds Currant money more then what is allready raised
and Likewise to apportion order and pay out of the publick Treasury
of this pvince the sume of one hundred ninety Six pounds nine shil-
lings and four pence half penny Currant money of this pvince to the
severall Persons to whome the same shall be due as by the Journall
of the Committee of Accounts appears and a fair Journall of all
their proceedings to be delivered to the Clerk of the Assembly for
Satisfactions of all persons therew^th Concerned by the twentyeth
day of October next
And if it shall happen that his Exe^llcy shall please to Convene an
Assembly before the said twenty Seventh day of September af^d then
this present Act and all and Every Clause therein Contained shall be
void and of no force.

Liber LL,

Acts

An Act for the relief of Peter Sawell a Languishing Prisoner in
Calvert County

Whereas Peter Sawell of Calvert County planter has by his humble
petition to this Present Generall Assembly set fourth that he has
Continued a Prisoner for debt in the Custody of the Sherriffe of

Acts of
April, 1715,
ch. 20
p. 148

Calvert County for above three Years past and still Continues in the
Like deplorable Circumstances not being able to Redeem his body
with all the Estate or Interest he has in the world which he would
readily Surrender up and part with to his Creditors if they would
accept of the same and grant him his Liberty but that although he
hath often made such offers with many repeated Intreaties that they
might be Accepted of Yet he has not yet been favoured with the
grant of his Requests in that behalfe but Instead thereof Flat denyals
of any manner of favour from the Chiefest of them so that unless
some relief be provided for him by a particular Act to be past in
his favour which by his said Petition he hath Humbly Prayed for
he fears he shall Continue a Prisoner for life and by that meanes
his wife and four small Children become a burthen to the County for
necessary Sustenance to preserve them from Starving and for that
the Truth of the said Peter Sawell's Allegations is made appear to
this Generall Assembly by sufficient Testimony and also that the said
Peter has not fallen under such Circumstances by any Idleness or
Extravagancy of his owne haveing been Allways an Industrious
pains taking Planter but merely by his Lossess at Sea and the Ex-
tream decay of the Tobacco Trade and also that the said Peter is a
man of an honest sober Conversation And therefore for that the
said Peter and his family are thought fitt objects of Charity, and
that his Lying in Coale Can be no benefitt to his Creditors tho it
may prove a ruin to his family and a burthen to the County It is
humbly prayed that the said Peter may be releived according to his
prayer and that it may be Enacted

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