Acts. 255

may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Authority Advice and
Consent aforesaid that the said Robert Gray and John Budd upon
their Surrendering up all their Estate upon Oath as aforesaid on the
Condition & under the penalty af^d enjoyned the said Samuel Lyle to
any two of the Justices and to the Sherriff of Kent County for the
use of the said Parties at whose suit they are now Detained in prison
Save that the sherriff have a proportionable part of such Estates so
to be surrendered up towards Discharge of his fees due to him on
Account of the Imprisonment of the s^d Robert Gray and John Budd
at the suit of the said Parties for which they are now in custody It
shall and may be lawfull for the said Sherr. and he is hereby required
to discharge the said Robert Gray and John Budd Out of his Cus-
tody and the said parties are hereby debarred from any further Accon
or Actions ag^t the said Robert Gray and John Budd On the Account
for w^ch they are now Imprisoned.

Liber LL, 4
Acts

An Act Reviveing an Act of Assembly of this Province Entituled an
Act for Encouragement of Tillage and relief of poor Debtors &
for Supplying some Defects therein
Be it Enacted by the Right Hon^ble the Lord Proprietor by and with
the Advice and Consent of his Lpps Governeur and the uper & lower
houses of Assembly and by the Authority of the same that the above
Menconed act Entituled an Act for Encouragement of Tillage and
releif of poor debtors made at a Session of Assembly begun and held
at the City of Annapolis the twenty sixth day of Aprill Anno Dom
One thousand Seven hundred and fifteen be and is hereby Revived

and Continued in full force from and After this present Session of
Assembly for and Dureing the term of three Years and untill the End
of the next Session of Assembly which shall first happen after the
End of the said Three Years and no longer
And be it further Enacted by the Authority advice & Consent af^d
that all & Every pson or persons who shall be desirious of takeing the
benifitt of the Act aforemenconed shall before the Discharge of his
her or their body by Vertue of that Act first make his or her or their
Corporall Oath to be to him her or them Administered by one Jus-
tice of the provinciall or two of the County Court, that he she or they
have not, nor had at the time of his her or their being taken in
Execution The particular Specie for which he she or they were prose-
cuted and then under Execution or any p^t thereof more then what he
she or they will pay to his her or their Creditor or Creditors if he
or they think fitt to Except thereof, And be it further Enacted that
in Case any person or persons so takeing the benefitt of the Act af^d
shall perjure themselves before such Provinciall or County Justices
and be thereof Convict he she or they shall undergo the like paines and
penalties as persons Convict of willfull & Corrupt Perjury.

Acts of
May, 1719,
ch. 11
(Revives
1717, ch. 17)
p. 437