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154 C. 87, 88. Anno tricesimo quinto Georgii III. A.D. 1795. CAP. LXXXVII.

An Act for making and maintaining a Navigable Canal from and out of the Navigation from the Trent to the Mersey, at or near Stoke-upon-Trent, in the County of Stafford, to the Town of Newcastle - under Lyme, in the said County.

[2d June 1795.]

34 Geo. III. Cap. 69. recited.

Gaolers to make out Lifts of Pri-foners who, on

Feb. 12, I7?4> and at the Time of making out, were in Custo-

Warden of the Fleet, tec. on delivering in Lifts, to take the following

Gath.

03th, Sec. to be dealt with as directed by recited Act.

Prisoners to take the following Oath.

CAP. LXXXVIII.

An Act to remedy certain Omissions in an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled, An Act for the Discharge of certain Insolvent Debtors.

[22d June 1795.]

WHEREAS an Act passed in the last Session of Parliament, intituled An Act for the Discharge of certain Insolvent Debtors, did not extend to the Relief of all the Persons to whom it was meant to extend, owing to the Circumstance of several Prisoners, who were in Custody on the twelfth Day of February one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, and had continued in Custody from that Time, having, during the Time of their Imprisonment, been removed by Writ of Habeas Corpus, or by other Means, from one Prison to another, after the said twelfth Day of February one thousand seven hundred and

ninety-four:* Be it enacted by the King’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Con lent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That, from and after the passing of this Act, all and every Gaoler or Keeper of any rrifon within this Kingdom shall and is hereby required to make a true, exact, and perfect: Lift, alphabetically, of the Name or Names of all and every Person and Persons described in the said Act, who, upon the said twelfth Day of February one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, was or were in the Custody of any Gaoler or Gaolers, Keeper or Keepers of any Prison, and at the Time of making out every such Lift shall be really an actual Prisoner or Prisoners in the Custody of the Gaoler or Gaolers, Keeper or Keepers, of any Prison, making and delivering such Lift, which Lift shall be delivered and dealt with in like Manner as is directed by the said Act with respect to the Lifts therein mentioned.

II. And be it further enacted, That the Warden of his Majesty's Prison of the Fleet, and the Marshal of the KingJs Bench Prison, and every other Gaoler and Keeper of any other Prison, shall severally, on the delivering in of such Lift of Prisoners in their respective Custody, take an Oath in the open Court of General Quarter Section of the Peace, or at some Adjournment thereof, to the following Effect:

I A.B. upon my Corporal Oath, in the Presence of Almighty God, do solemnly swear, profess, and declare, That all and every Person and Persons, whose Name or Names is or are inserted in the Lift by me now delivered in and subscribed, have been, to the best of my Knowledge and Belief, really and truly Prisoners in my actual Custody ever since the respective Days and Times in such Lift mentioned; 1 and that it appears by the several Returns and Affidavits of the several Gaoler or Gaolers, Keeper or Keepers, in whose Custody the said several Persons have been, previous to their being committed into my i Custody, that they were really and truly Prisoners in actual Custody on the twelfth Day of February one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, at the Suit or Suits of the several Person or Persons therein respectively mentioned.*

Which said Oath, and the Words thereof. Lifts, and Copies of Lifts, shall be entered, kept, and dealt with in Manner in the said Act directed respecting the Oath, Lifts, and Copies of Lifts, therein mentioned.

III. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That, instead of the Oath by the said Act directed to be taken by such Prisoners as in the said Act are described, an Oath to the following Effect shall be taken by them respectively: - *

I A.B. upon my Corporal Oath, in the Presence of Almighty God, do solemnly swear, protest, and declare, That, on the twelfth Day of February one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, I was

really and truly a Prisoner in actual Custody of the Keeper of some Gaol or Prison at the Suit of

without any Fraud or Collusion whatever, and that I have ever since my Commitment continued a Prisoner in actual Custody, at the Suit of and without any Fraud or Collusion

whatever; and that the Schedule now delivered by me, and subscribed, doth contain, to the best of my Knowledge, Remembrance, and Belief, a full, just, true, and perfect Account and Discovery of all the Goods, Effects, and Estates, Real and Personal, in Portelfion, Reversion, Remainder, or Expectancy, which I, or any Person in Trust for me or for my Benefit or Advantage, am or is seized or possessed of, interested in, or entitled to, or which was or were in my Possession at any Time since my Commitment to Prison, and of all Debts which are to me owing, or to any Person or Persons in Trust for me, and of all the Securities and Contrafts whereby any Money now is, or will or may hereafter become payable, or any Benefit or Advantage may acrue to me, or to my Use, or to any Person or Persons in Trust for 4 me, and the Names and Places of Abode of the several Persons from whom such Debts are due and owing, and of the Witnesses that can prove such Debts or Contrafts (if any such there be); and that neither I, nor any other Person or Persons in Trust for me or for my Use, have any Lands, Money, Stock, or any Estate, Real or Personal, in Porteftion, Reversion, or Remainder, or Expectancy, other than what are in the said Schedule contained, except Wearing Apparel and Bedding for myself and Family, Working Tools, and necessary Implements for my Occupation and Calling, together with a Sum of Money not