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tbefe debts, but each creditor fhall have a power, legal- 

 ly to leiz.e on the effeEis of the debtor wherever they 

 can be found, and to apply them to his own ufe, with- 

 out communicating any part of them to the other credi- 

 tors, until his whole claim fhall be finally '^extinguifhed. 



17. But if the debtor fhall contracl any ricic debts 

 fubfequent to his bankruptcy either to thefe former 

 ci-editors or others, if a fequeftration of effefts fliall be 

 made for any of thefe 7tew debts, while the debtor is not 

 able to fatisfy all claims upon him ; this fhall necefTari- 

 ly bring on a new bankruptcy, which mufl as necefTarily 

 produce an equal dividend of the produce of the debt- 

 or's whole eflefts among all his creditors at the time ; 

 and on this event, the oN creditors fliall rank the fame as 

 the new, in proportion to the amount of their refpeftlve 

 claims. 



15. New debtors in this cafe, fliall have the fame 

 power to imprifon and to bring the debtor to a trial, as 

 if it had been a firfl bankruptcy. ' . 



19 But that a man, who, notwithflanding the out- 

 flauding»debts againfl him, has his perfon thus protect- 

 ed from danger of imprifonment may be enabled to earn 

 his br..ad, it fhould be enadled, that in all cafes of ar- 

 refl or fequeftration of efFe£i;s, 'the necefTiry tools for 

 working in his j^rofeflion ought to be excepted, as alfo, 

 one fuit at leafl of body clothes for himfelf and each 

 individual of his family. As many bedclothes likewife 

 fhould be protected, as fhould be deemed reafonably 

 fufBcient to defend tl)e whole family from fuiFering by 

 cold, and fo many of the kjjphen utenfils of the plainefl 

 fort, as are neceffary for readying common vi^luals for 

 tlie family, without which it does not feem that per- 

 fons can eaiily fubfifl in a flate of civil fociety. 



20. And that no abufes might be fuffered to creep in 

 under this pretext, it fhall be Specially required on every 

 furrendry of effedts, that thefe excepted goods be all 

 produced before the creditors at the time, to be infpefted 

 by them ; and if thofe produced fliall be judged of a k'm^ 



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