An Act in addition to the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Collection of Debts by foreign attachment
Connecticut General Assembly
The Unionist 1833-09-05
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, in General Assembly convened, That whenever a debtor may be imprisoned at the suit of any creditor or creditors, and such debtor shall not, within three months from his commitment, or if now imprisoned, within three months from the rising of tis Assembly, be admitted to take the poor debtor’s oath, as provided by the “Act concerning Gaols and Gaolers,” such debtor shall be deemed an absconding debtor within the meaning of the act to which this is an addition. And it shall be lawful for such creditor or creditors to proceed against the goods, effects, and credits of such absconding debtor, in the hands of his or her attorney, agent, factor, trustee or debtor, in the manner provided in said act.
SAMUEL INGHAM,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
EBENZER STODDARD,
President of the Senate.
Approved, May 31st, 1833
HENRY EDWARDS.
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