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 A. D. i76o« Anno primo Georgii III. C. 17. 547 therein named ; and To as the fame may, from Time to Time, be fecn and examined by any Creditor ©r Creditors of I'uch Prifoner or Prifoners, without Fee or Reward. III. And be it further ena6led by the Authority aforefaid. That all and every Gaoler and Gaolers, and Keeper of any Gaol or Prifon, is and are hereby required, ten Days at leaft before the firft or Copie^of the Lifls to be fecond General orQiiarterSeffion of the Peace fhall be held after the faid thirty-firft Day of March one jeiiveieci in to be fixed thoufand {(tvQ.x hundred and fixty-one, for the County, Riding, Divifion, City, 1 own. Place or up in the Prifons, and Liberty, in which any fuch Gaol or Prifon fhall be, or to which the fame (hall belong, to fix up, in on the Gates thereof, fome confpicuous Place or Places in every fuch Prifon, and at the moft frequented and ufual Gate, Door, or Entrance into every fuch Prifon, three or more true Copies of the Lift or Lifts propofed or intended to be delivered in by any fuch Gaoler or Keeper, at the faid General or Qiiarter Sellion, or at fome Adjournment thereof. IV. And be it further enaded. That all and every Perfon and Perfons whofe Name or Names fhall [fft, bcin??rifoner/ be inferted in any fuch Lift to be delivered in as aforefaid, who, upon the twenty-fifth Day of O^o- without a fraudulent in- ^/?r one thoufand feven hundred and fixty, were really and truly Prifoners in the a6lual Cuftody of tention, on 35 oaoter any Gaoler or Gaolers, or Keeper of any Prifon refpeftively of this Kingdom, and did not come i7<5o, into, or get his, her, or theit Names entered in the 13ook of any Gaol or Prifon as a Prifoner or Prifoners there, with a View or Defign to take the Benefit of fome A6i: for Relief of Infolvent Debt- ors, and who {hall take the Oath herein after-mentioned, and fhall perform on his or her Part what is conforming to the Repu- required to be done by him or her by this A61, fhall be for ever releafed and difcharged from his orJ^^J'^IJl^^j^^* '*'^'^'^^' ^^'^ her Imprifonmcnt, in fuch Manner as hereafter is provided. ^ ^^ V. Provided always, and be it enacted by the Authority aforefaid. That any Prifoner or Prifoners Prifoners in Cuftody at who fhall be in a6lual Cuftody at the Time of pafTing this A<St, and was or were, on or before the ^"^^ Time of paffing this twenty-fifih Day of October one thoufand feven hundred and fixty, arrefted for any Sum or Sums of ^^j^^^° wereanefted Money by virtue of any Writ or Procefs ifluing out of any Court of Record, and held to Bail o^ober °-6o'^ aT/heid thereon, and did, on or before the tv/enty-eighth Day of November one thoufand feven hundred and to be Bail, and rendered Tixty, render him, her, or themfelves, or was or were furrendered in difcharge of his, her, or their fh '""-Kes, &c.onorbe- Bail, and thereupon committed to Prifon, and has or have continued therein until the paffing of this fo^^ezg Nov. 1760, Aft, by virtue of fuch Commitment ; every fuch Prifoner or Prifoners fhall, upon due Proof of the^j.g°[^j°™'"J.'i° .'^^^^ Premifles upon Oath, be difchai-ged from fuch Debt or Demand, in like matjncr as if fuch Prifoner or fl,aU be difcharged. ' Prifoners had been aftually in Prifon upon the faid twenty-fifth Day of Ohcher one thoufand feven hundred and fixty, and continued therein as aforefaid ; fubjeft hevertheltrfs to the fame Reftridtions and Provifions, and a Compliance with the like Terms, Conditions, and Qualifications, herein be- fore impofed upon Prifoners actually in Cuftody upon the faid twenty-fifth Day of OSiober one thou- fand feven hundred and fixty ; and alfo fubje£t to the fame Terms and Provifions relating to the E- ftate and EfFefts of every fuch Prifoner as aforefaid. VI. And be it further enabled. That it fhall be lawful for any Juftice or Juftices of any County, Ri- jufiices upon the Petiti- ding,Divifion, City, Town, Place, or Liberty, within this Kingdom, upon the Petition of any fuch Pri- on of the Prifoner, and foner or Prifoners to any Juftice or Juftices of thePeace within his or their refpe£tiveJurifdi£tions (upon *iis delivering a Schedule every fuch Prifoner or Prifoners fo petitioning, and at the Time of his or her fo petitioning, leaving Eftate, with the Juftice or Juftices of the Peace, who fhall be To petitioned, a true Copy of the Scheduk, containing his or her intended Difcovery of his or her real and perfonal Eftate ; to be fv/orn to at the firft or fecond General or Qiiarter Seftion next enfuing after every fuch Petition, or fome Ad- journment thereof) by Warrant under his Hand and Seal, or their Hands and Seals, to require the ^^^j*^° ^.'^"^ m^'tbepT Sheriff" or Sheriffs, Gaoler or Gaolers, or Keeper of any fuch Prifon within the Jurifdiftion of any foner to the Quarter Sef- fuch Juftice or Juflices, to bring before the Juftices at the firft or fecond next General or General fions, &c. Quarter Seflion of the Peace, or any Adjournment thereof, to be held, as the Cafe fhall happen to be, next after the Expiration of ten Days from the Date of fuch Warrant, for fuch refpeiiive County, Riding, Divifion, City, Town, Place, or Liberty, the Body of any Perfon being in the faid Prifon as aforefaid, ' ' ^^^ ■•tt --, • , t-. •, • < .^ or Copies of the or 1 nlOn as atOielaiu, aLmv^ xmiv^aiuiv-iaiu, wmt^n v»«i.iianL>Jicvi,iy iui,ii juiii^s, ui j uiiici^o, v:.v^i y (^Tolpf s-~ ff, oKpi/ fuch Sheriff" and Sheriffs, Gaoler or Keeper, is and are hereby commanded to obey. fuch Warrant. VII. And be it alfo enafted, That the Copy of every Schedule which fliall be left with any fuch Schedule of the Prlfo- Juftice or Juftices, fhall, within ten Days after the fame fhall be fo left, be tranfmitted by the Ju^- ner's Eftate to be tranf- tice or Juftices, with whom the fam.e (hall be fo left, to the Clerk of the Peace for the County, Ri- '^''^'^^ 'othe Clerk of ding, Divifion, City, Town, Place, or Liberty, in which the fame fhall have been fo left, there to ^.^^ ^u^^^'r xv- f.u °- 1 i_ • r o. J r '-n- T-- •'i"v r nii • i /^i- r tor the Inlpection of the remam and be mlpected, rrom 1 ime to 1 ime, as Occaiion mall require, by any Creditor of any Creditors. fuch Prifoner who fhall defire to infpecl the fame. VIII. And be it further enacted. That all and every Prifoner and Prifoners, who fhall intend to petition to be difcharged under this A£l, as aforefaid, fhall firft caufe public Notice to be inferted in Loudon., or the Vv eekly Bills of Mortality, then alfo in fome News Paper which fliall be publifhed Gazette, and other News in or near the County, Riding, Divifion, City, Town, Liberty, or Place, in the Gaol whereof he Papcs j or fhe fhall be fo in Cuftody i containing the Name, Trade, or Occupation^, and two laft Places Contents of the Notice. of Abode, if fo many, of every fuch Prifoner and Prifoners, and the Prifon wherein he, fhe, or they, is or are confined, and of his, her, or their Intention to take the Benefit of this Act, and men- 4 A 2 tioning