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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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The New York state legislature passed an act on March 31 discharging prisoners from jails for debts, fines, or forfeitures up to 15 pounds (excluding costs), barring future imprisonment for the same, while preserving claims against their estates. Applies to debts owed to the state.
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An Act was passed by the Legislature of the state of New-York, on the 31st ult. discharging every person from imprisonment, confined in any jail in that state, for any debts, fines or forfeitures not exceeding fifteen pounds (37 and half dollars) in the whole, exclusive of costs ; and enacting, that no person, so discharged, should at any time thereafter be imprisoned for the same cause : But it is provided, that every debt and damage, judgment and decree, had or obtained against every person, so discharged, shall be good and effectual, in law, against their estates, real and personal. The act extends to all debts, fines, &c. due to the people of that state.
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State Of New York
Event Date
31st Ult.
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discharge from imprisonment for debts, fines, or forfeitures not exceeding fifteen pounds (exclusive of costs); no future imprisonment for same cause; claims remain valid against estates.
Event Details
An Act passed by the Legislature of the state of New-York discharging persons imprisoned in jails for debts, fines, or forfeitures up to fifteen pounds (37 and half dollars) exclusive of costs, preventing re-imprisonment for the same, while preserving legal claims against their real and personal estates. Extends to all such debts due to the people of the state.