Section XV What Persons not to be sent to House of Correction

Provided alsoe and bee it enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That noe person shall by vertue of this Act be committed to the House of Correction that shall satisfie the said Justices of the Peace or Cheife Magistrate respectively that he or she (and in case of a Feme Covert that her Husband) hath an Estate of Freehold or Copyhold to the value of Five pounds per annu[m], or personall Estate to the value of Fifty pounds, Any thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding.