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••• The object of the present Work Is as atletnpt to re-
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMEN7'.

HOUSE OF LORDS, Tnasso.cr, Joss 13.

Thrir Lordships met at fifteen minutes before
four o'clock.

BANKRUPT LAWS AMENDMENT BILLS.
The LORD CHANCELLOR stated, that he had to
present to their Lordships a Bill to amend the
Bankrupt Laws, in certain cases of joint commis.
stuns. The Noble and Learned Lord stated that
the object of the Bill was, to enable the Court
which he presided over to supersede a joint coin.
mission, as far as it related to any one or more of
the bankrupts, who, by his industry had been ena-
bled fully to pay hi. debts. without say prejudice
to the certificate of the other bankrupts, or to the
validity of the commission sgaiust them. He said
that this Bill had origiosted iu Lis having been
under the necessity of lamenting, that without the
interference of Parliament he could not comply
with such • reasonable request as to supersede ■
commission in these cases, where the person against
whom it had i-sued had so faithfully discharged his
duties to himself and to his creditors. The Noble
and Learned Lind then presented the Bill; it was
read a first time, and ordered to be printed.
The LORDCHANCILLOR then stated that be had
two other Bills to submit to the consideration of
their Lordships for the amendment of the Bank-
rupt Laws. He had pledged himself at the con-
clusion of the last Session, when a Bill had been
brought up from the other House of Parliament
which appeared to him to require great considera-
tion, he had promised to prepare some Bill which
might embrace such suggestions as might appear
beneficial. He had hoped to have redeemed his
pledge during the vacation in the last autumn,
and to have presented the Bills at the sitting of
Parliament, but the innumerable communications
which had been made to him, containing some
very valuable suggestions, retarded him. He
trusted, however, that one of the two Bills might
pass during the present Session; and the other,
which related to very important metier, might be
laid upon the table for the purpose of investigation
during the recess, before it was taken into consi-
deration the next Season, the particulars of which
he would detail on a future day. The Bill which
he would present 011 Monday next, and move to be
read a first time, was, first, to enable the Commis-
sioners of Bankrupts to compel the attendance of
witnesses at the opening of the commission—se-
condly, to enable assignees to execute powers of
attorney, and to compel bankrupts in certain cases
to join to conveyances—thirdly, to prevent perjury
in petitions in bankruptcy—fourthly, to enable a
commission to be issued against part of a firm—
fifthly, to enable assignees to use thee names of part-
ners in seeking the recovery of property of bankrupts,
and to give allowances to-bankrupts, mind to give to
the bankrupt the right to call upon a creditor who
holds out against all the other creditors, toshew cause
why his certificate should not be allowed. The
Noble and Learned Earl observed, that this was not
a prospective clause. but a retrospective one, to
give relief in certain cases where the right seemed
not to have been exercised according to the intro-
tido of the Legislature. The Noble and Lta►ued
Lord then observed, that there were various reme-
dies which he of his own authority could supply,
and had therefore prepared certain orders : the
first; That brokers should be appointed by the Court
of Chancery to take inventories of the bankrupt's
property the instant the commission of bankruptcy
was found ; 2d, To permit the remission of debts un-
der separate commissions ; and 3d, To enable
mortgagees to come before the Commissioners, and
to ascertain the amount of undivided dividends in
the hands of the assignees.
ROMAN CATHOLIC PEERS.

The Bishop of gireall presented— a Petition
from the parish of St, Sidwell, in the County and
City pf Exeter, prayipg that the Bill for allowing