Section V Prisoner discharged, not again to be charged for the old Debts;

nor by any other Person to whom he gave Notice of Application for Discharge.; Prisoner shewing Duplicate of Discharge may retain an Attorney; Proceedings thereon against Prisoner, and his Lands, Goods, &c.; Proviso for Wearing Apparel, &c. to the Value of £10; and for Discharge of Prisoner.

And bee it further enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That noe Prisoner discharged out of Prison by vertue of this present Act or by vertue of the said recited Act shall at any time hereafter be imprisoned for or by reason of any Debt or Damages or any summe or summes of money contracted or growne due to or recovered by any person or persons at whose Suite the said Prisoner did then stand charged in any Prison or any other person or persons to whome such Prisoner did give notice under the Hand and Seale of some Justice of the Peace of the same County City or Place the space of forty dayes before the time of his Discharge of his intention to receive the benefit of this Act and of the way and course he intended to take for obtaining the same before the time of their Discharges as aforesaid But that upon any Arrest for such Debt Damages or Summes of Money it shall or may be lawfull for them shewing a Duplicate of their Discharge under the Hands and Seales of the Justices of the Peace by whome they were discharged or of any Two of them or of such Justices of the Peace in case such Prisoner be discharged after an allowance of Maintenance by the Creditor for Three Moneths as aforesaid which the said Justices are hereby required to give to every Prisoner soe by them discharged to retaine an Attourney to appeare for them and file Common Baile to every such Action and pleade thereunto soe that the Plaintiffe if he please may recover and enter Judgement against such Prisoner to be executed and levyed upon the Lands Tenements Goods and Chattells of such Prisoner soe discharged as aforesaid his or her Wearing Apparell Furniture for his or her Dwelling house the said Furniture not exceeding Ten pounds in value and necessary Tools for his or her Trade and. Occupation onely excepted but not upon the Person of the Prisoner the persons of such Prisoners being hereby for ever freed and discharged from Imprisonment for any Debt Trespasse upon the Case Duty Summe or Summes of Money or thing thereunto relateing contracted or due before the time of their discharge haveing had notice as aforesaid