Section III Recital of 22 & 23 C. 11. c. 20. §4.

Weekly Allowance to be paid to Prisoner and not to Keeper, &c.; Prisoner not discovered in Three Months to have any Estate, discharged by Two Justices.

And whereas by the said former Act it is provided That if any Creditor shall insist to have his Debtor continued in Prison after he hath taken the said Oath and will allow him a weekly Maintenance to be appointed by the Justices of the Peace not exceeding Eighteene pence the weeke the same Prisoner shall continue and be detained in Prison Bee it now enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That such weekly Allowance shall be paid to the Prisoner himselfe and not to the Goale-Keeper or any other person for him and if within the space of Three moneths after such weekly Allowance by any Creditor noe Estate of the Prisoner shall be discovered or made out before Two Justices of the Peace of that County and Division where the said Prisoner is kepte in Prison then the said Prisoner shall forthwith be discharged by Warrant under the Hands and Seales of any Two Justices of the Peace of the same County and Division where the said Prisoner shall be soe in Prison to the Keeper of such Prison in that behalfe directed as fully and amply as if such Prisoner had beene discharged by the Justices of the Peace at their Quarter Sessions as in the said recited Act is mentioned and that then and from thenceforth the said weekely Allowance shall cease and determine as if the same had never beene made.