Prince George's County
Court,
April Term, 1814.[1]
ON the
application, by petition in writing, of Charles L Gantt, of Prince George's county,
to the Court for the benefit of the Act of Assembly, passed at November
session, eighteen hundred and five, entitled "A Act for the relief of
sundry insolvent debtors." And the several supplements thereto. — A
schedule of his property and a list of his creditors on oath, as far as he can
ascertain them, being and next to in said petition, and the court being
satisfied by competent testimony, that the said prisoner is a citizen of the
state of Maryland, and that he had resided therein but to last years preceding
is application, and they also satisfied that the said Charles L. Gantt is now
in actual confinement for debt, and the said petitioner having entered into
bond with security for his appearance in this court, on the first Monday in
September next, and then and there to answer such allegations as may be
exhibited against him by his creditors. It is thereupon ordered and adjudged by
the said court, that the said petitioner be discharged from imprisonment, and
the said first Monday in September next is appointed for the said petitioner to
deliver up his property and to have a trustee appointed for the benefit of his
creditors. And it is ordered, that the said Charles L Gantt, by causing a copy
of the foregoing to be published once a week for three months successfully in
the National Intelligencer before the said first Monday in September next, give
notice to his creditors that they be and appear before the court on the said
day to recommend a trustee for their benefit.
Test.
JOHN
READ MAGRUDER, Clerk
of Prince George's County Court.
June 8 -v3m
[1] Daily
National Intelligencer; Date: 07-04-1814; Page: [1]; Washington (DC), District
of Columbia.
Transcribed by john Peter Thompson, July 4th, 2014.
n.b.: Incarceration of debtors was a common practice
in the United States at this time
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