Chap. 0130. An Act in addition to an Act, entitled "An Act for the relief of Poor Prisoners, who are committed by Execution, for Debt."



Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, That any person hereafter committed to prison on execution, and being desirous to avail himself, or herself, of the poor debtors' oath, the judgment creditor or creditors living without this Commonwealth, and having no agent or attorney within the same, may be admitted to take the same, by leaving an attested copy of sucli notification as is, in and by the act, entitled, " an act for the relief of poor prisoners, who are committed by execution for debt," passed the nineteenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty seven, provided, with the Clerk of the Court, or the Justice, by whom the said execution was signed, thirty days previous to such intended caption, any thing in the said act to the contrary notwithstanding.

[Approved by the Governor, February 21st, 1820.] 49