Section XII Creditor of Debtor, being a Day Labourer, &c. may have his Debtor removed to public Work-house within 20 Miles, and kept to Labour.

Creditor to contribute only so much above Profit of Labour as shall be requisite to maintain Debtor, Proviso if Profit of Labour exceed Maintenance.

Provided alsoe and bee it enacted That if any Creditor insisting to have his Debtor continued in Prison and ordered to make Allowance towards his Maintenance shall desire to have his Debtor being a person formerly useing any Handycraft or Day labour removed to any Publique Worke house there to be kept at hard Labour and shall within One weeke next after notice of such Order for makeing Allowance at his owne proper Costs and Charges cause such Prisoner by Habeas Corpus and Committment or other Order to be removed to any Publique Worke-house in the same County where the said Prison is or within Twenty miles distance of the said Prison That then such Prisoner soe removed to the said Workhouse shall and may be there held to Labour suitable to his ability and the Creditor or Creditors shall afterwards contribute towards his Maintenance onely such Summe as over and above the proffitt of his Labour shall be requisite to maintaine him to be ascertained by the Two next Justices of Peace And in case the proffitt of his Labour shall exceede the value of his Maintenance one moyety of the overplus shall goe towards the payment of his Debts for which he remaines in Execution the other moyety shall be paid to the hands of the said Prisoner the said moyetyes to be distributed accordingly by the Two next Justices of the Peace