Chap. 0009 an act for repealing an act entituled "an act for [THE] relief and release of poor prisoners for debt."
Whereas the act for relief and release of poor prisoners for debt, made and pass'd in the tenth year of the reign of King William the Third, was design'd for the benefit of such debtors as, by the providence of God, and through great and inevitable losses and disappointments, are become the proper objects of the publick compassion; yet it is found by experience that the said act, instead of answering the good intention aforesaid, has been a shelter to vicious and improvident persons, a great encouragem[m]t to idleness and ill-husbandrj-, and too much a temptation to perjury, as well as injurious and oppressive to many honest creditors,-
Be it therefore enacted by the Lieutenant-Governour, Council and Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same,
That the said act for relief and release of poor prisoners for debt, and every article and clause therein, shall be repealed and annulled, and hereb}r are declared to be repealed and annulled, to all intents and purposes whatsoever. [Passed December 10, 1725; published January 3, 1725-26.