An Act to abolish Franchise Prisons.
WHEREAS it is expedient that the several Prisons mentioned in the Schedule to this Act, which are now used for the Confinement of Debtors, should be abolished: Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, as follows: