The Sun.
London, England, 1802-02-16 00:00:00

A BILL

To extend, and render more cif-diva!, the provi-
sions of an Aft, made in the Thirty-second Year
of the Reign of His late Majesty Kirg George the
Second, intituled, " An 'Aft for the Relief of
Debtors, with respect to the Imprisonment of
their Persons, and to oblige Debtors who.shall
c mtinue in Execution in Prison beyond a certain
Time, and for Sums not exceeding what are men-
tioned in the Mt, to make discovery of, and
deliver upon %ith, their Estates for their Credi-
tors' Benefit.

WHIIREAs it may be expedient to extend, and
render more effedual, the provisions of an Ad
passed in the thirty-second year of the reign of His
late Majesty King George the Second, intituled,
" An At for the Relief of Debtors with resped to
the Imprionment of their Persons, arid to oblige
Debtors who shall continue in Execution in Prison.
beyond a certain time, and for Sums not exceeding
what are mentioned in the Aa; to make discovery
of, and deliver upan Oath, their Estates for their
Creditors' benefit ;"

Be it declared and enaaed by the King'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, that every person
or persons at whose suit any Debtor shall have been
charged in execution for any sum or sums of money,
to any amount whatsoever, for the space of- shall
have such remedy by compelling 'such Debtor to de-
liver uphis or her estate and egas, for the benefit of
his or her Creditors, as is provided by the said re-
cited Ad in cases where the sum for which such
Debtor shall be in execution does not exceed the
sum of one hundred pounds.
And be it further enafted; that in all cases Miele
such Debtor shall, in purSuance of the said recited
Aft, or this Aft, at the desire of any person or per-
sons at whose suit he or she shall have been charged
in execution, be brought up to any such Court,
Assizes, or Great Sessions as in the said recited
Afti are mentioned, and shall neglea or refuse to
delver in or subscribe a just. and true account of
his or her estate and effects, or to assign and convey
the same, in manner and 'form as by the said recited
Aft .is required, and shall not offer some just and •
reasonable excuse for such negleft and refusal, to
be approved by the Court, Judge or Judges, Jus-
tice or Justices, in which, or' before whom such,
Debtor shall be so brought up, in every such case
such Court,. Judge or
_ledges, Justice or Justices, is,
and are hereby empowered and direded, by rule or
order of the same Court, Judge or Judges, Justice
or Justices, to dire& and older that all the real and
personal estate of such Debtor, except as in the said
recited Aft is excepted, shall be 'vested in such per_
son or persons, as in the said rule or order shall be
in that behalf mentioned, and the same shall be
thereby vested in such person 'or persons,- on the ..
same trusts, and tclitlar, same ends,, intents, and pur-
poses, in all respells whatsoever, as fully and effec-
tually as if thesaine had beenassigned and conveyed
by such Debtor in the manner specified in the said
recited Aft ; and that' every other person or persons
IVIICIRF. chit Detoe shall mins.
taly or execution, Who, previously to the ma ing
such rule or order, shall, by any memorandum in
writing, to be signed by such person or persons,
coasent to accept a proportionable dividend of such
Debtor's estates and. -effeets, with the person or
persons who shall have. required such Debtor to be
so brought up as aforesaid, shall be entitled to the
ftill benefit of such rule order.
Provided always and be it further enaeted,. that
nothing•herein contained shall . extend to entitle any
Debtor, who shall so neglea or refuse to deliver in
or subscribe such account of his or her estate and
effects, or to. assign and convey the same as afore-
said, to be discharged out of custody at 'the suit of
such Creditor or Creditors as shall take the, benefit
of such rule or order, until such Creditor or Creditors
shall be fully satisfied. the debts for which such
Debtor shall have been charged in custody or execu-
tion at the time of making the said rule or order ;
nor shall any thing herein contained extend to take
away any of the punishments or penalties provided
by the said . recited Aft against persons guilty of
such reglea or refusal..
And whereas in and by the said recited Act,
provision is made for . the causing any Prisoner
or Prisoners charged in execution in any county
gaol, or in any other gaol or prison, distant above
twenty miles 'frOm Westminster Hall, or the
Court or Courts out of which such execution or
executions shall. be issued out against any such
Prisoner or Prisoners, to he brought to the next
Assizes which shall he holden within that part of
of Great Baitain called England, and if within
the Principality of Wales, or County Palatine
of Chester, then to the next Great Sessions to be
holden for the County in \Vales, or County Palatine
of Chester, in which any such Prisoner or Prisoners
' shall be iinprisoned, for the purpose of taking the
benefit of the said Aft and whereas it would tend
to the more speedy relief of such Prisoner or Pri-
soners, if the like power' were
.given to the Justices
of the Peace at. their General or General Quarter
Sessions of the Peace, as is by the said recited Aft
given to the Judge or Judges of AsSizes, Justice or
Justices of Great Session respeCtively .; Be it there-
fore enafted, That upon such Petition being made
to the Court from whence any such execution or
executions issued, or in the prison of which Court
any such Prisoner shall stand charged in execution,.
the like manner and form,
,and on an Affidavit to
the like purport, as the Petition and Affidavit are
in the said At directed to I,e made, aicli Court, on
tieing satisfied with the truth, Of such Affidavit, is
hereby authorized and required to make_ a rule or
order, to cause the Prisoner or Prisoners so petition-
ing to-be brought, and the. Creditor or Creditors to
be summoned, either -to the next Assizes and Great
Ses4ons, according fo the prov isiOns Of the said Ad,
or to the next General or General Quarter Sessions
of. the Peace to -be holden for the i.:oiirity or place
where- lie or they'shall he imprisoned, which shall
first happen after daysl from the making of the
said rule or order ; and the said Justices of the Peace

at such General or deneral Quarter Sessions, shall in
all such eases have the like power, and proceed in
the same manner, as the Judge or Judges of Assize,
Justice or Justices of Great Sessions, are by the
said AO invested with, and sauthorized, to proceed ;
and that the expence of bringing every such Pri-
soner to the said Session, shall be. paid in the like
manner as by the said Ad is direeted, with resped.to
the, expence of bringing* any such Prisoner to the
Assizes ; and every order which shall be made in
the premises by the Justices in such Sessions, shall
•be as valid and effedual as if the same had been
made in the Court out of which the process issued on
which any such Prisoner was charged in execution
and the same shall be made a record of the proceed-
ings at such Session ; and a copy thereof shall frorri
thence be transmitted to the Court from whence the
execution against the -Prisoner or Prisoners dis-
charged issued or was awarded, sinned by the Clerk
of the Peace, Town Clerk, or other Officer acing
as Clerk of the Peace for the said County or place,
to be a record of the said Court, -rnd to be kept as
such amongst the other records thereof.