General Issue may be pleaded.; Double Costs.
Provided always and be it enacted That if any Person or Persons shall at any time be sued or prosecuted for any thing by him or them done or executed in pursuance of this Act he or they shall or may plead the General Issue and give this Act in Evidence for his Defence and if upon a Tryal a Verdict shall pass for the Defendant or Defendants or the Plaintiff or Plaintiffs be nonsuit discontinue or forbear prosecuting the said Actions then such Defendant or Defendants shall have double Costs to him or them awarded against such Plaintiff or Plaintiffs for which Costs he shall have such Remedy as in other Cases where Costs are by Law given to Defendants.