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London, England, 1831-07-25 00:00:00

25, 1831.

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adjudication if such trader shall be then residing within
gar the United Kingdom, or within three months
from the date aforesaid if then residing any other part
of Europe. or within one year from the aforesaid if
then residing elsewhere, or within such time as the
said Court shall allow, (not exceeding eft year. to be
computed from the date aihrtialdi such Court of Review
shall proceed to hear and decide on the said Fadden.
Power to annul Fiat.—That it shall be ;awful for the
Lord Chancellor, upon the tonal of angiedicaties of,
bsialumptcy, or for such other cause salts ARM illibak... I
order that any Bat issued by virtue of this act shall be I
rescinded or annulled, and such order shall have all the I
force and effect of a writ of supersedeas of a commission sc. '
cording to the existing laws and, practice in bankruptcy.
Meetings of Creditors.—That it shall be lawful for any
Commissioner who shall make any adjudication of bank.
mptcy to appoint two or more public meetings instead of
the three meetings directed by the said recited act, for
the bankrupt to surrender and conform, the last of which
said meetings shall be on the forty-second day by the said
act limited for arch surrender. _ _ _

Appointment of Oiteial eforignees.—That a number of
persons not exceeding thirty, being merchants, brokers, or,
accountants, or persons who are or have been engaged fa
trade in the cities of London or Westminster or the parts
adjacent, shall he chosen by the Lord Chancellor to act as
afficiAl assignees in Al baikrupteies presented in the said
court of luankruptcy ; one of whhft said official aes
signets 81,311 in all cues b.: an as4gnel of each banksupt's
estate and effect,, together wih the assignee or eadgesaa le
be chosen by the creditors; such official odium le glee
such security, to be subject to such rules, WNW for ads
estate, and act in such mat:ner as the add chief and other
judges, with the consent of the Lord Chaesellor, shall hens
time to time direct ; and all the personal estate and
and the rents and profits of ,he real estate,and the
sale of all the estate audeffeets,realmed thalami".
rapt, shall in every case be possessed and ressivad by lash
official Assignee alone,save where it shall be (eboniesdingad
by the said court of bankruptcy or any judos or amend&
scr thereof; and all stock in the public hods or afa
public company, and all monies, Exchequer bill.,
bonds, or other public securities, and all bills, notes, and
other negotiable instruments, shall be forthwith trapkivadt
delivered, and paid by such official assignee into the bank of
England, to the credit of the Accountant General of the
Hign Court of Chancery, to be subject to such order, ralsk
and regulation, for the keeping of the account of the said
monies and other effects, sad for the payment and deliver/
in, investment, and payment and delivery out of the nom
as the Lord Chancellor, or the said Court of Review, Or any
judge of the said Court of Bankruptcy, if astbsdeed se le
do by any general order of the same court, shall amt. ad
if any such assignee shall neglect to make inch trod%
delivery, or payment, every such assignee shall be Babb In
be charged in the same manner se by the said milli est is
provided in cases of neglect by assignees to invest Benny In
theictse of exchequer bilks, when dimmed se to do.
always, that nothing herein aslslosi shall ex-
tend to authorise any suelt official assignee to Mahn with
the assignees chosen by the creditors, in the appelattnent or
removal of a solicitor of attorney, or in directing the time
and manner of effecting any sale of the bankrupt's estates or
effects.

Porfilling up risontries In the Monsgor. of 4dedgmes.
That it shall be lawful for the Lord Chancellor, from time
to time as any vacancy may occur in the said before-men.
tinned number of official assignees, to appoint some other
person engaged in trade as aforesaid to MI any vacancy so
occurring ; and in case of the death or removal of any official
assignee wbo shall have been appointed to act in any bank-
ruptcy, it shall be lawful for the said court of bankruptcy,
subject to any rules to be made by virtue of this act, to sp.
point another official assignee of the number hereby pre.
melba to act in the same bankruptcy in the place of the
seslgnee who shall have so become dead or been removed.
Personal Estate tootle in Assignma—Tbot when any
puma bath been adjudged a bankrupt, all his personal es-
tate and effects, present and future, which by the laws now in
lame may be assigned by commissioners acting in the cite.
fades of a commission against such bankrupt, shall become
absolutely vested in and transferred to the assignees for the
time being. by virtue of their appointment, without any
deed of assignment for that purpose, as fully to all intents
as if such estate and effects were assigned by deed to such
assignees and the survivor of them; and se ellen as any such
assignees shall die, or be lawfully removed oir displaced, and
a new assignee duly appointed, all such personal estate
shall by virtue of such appointment vest is the new assig-
nee, either alone or jointly with the existing assignees as the
case may require, without any deed of saTgnment foe that
purpose.
Real estate hour to rest—That where -any person dull,
have been adjudged a bankrupt, all such present al=
real estate of such bankrupt, whether in the United
of Great Britain and Ireland, or in any if the timbions,
plantations, or colonies belonging to his , all by the bleSupes
said recited act Is directed to be onsworell
sinners to the assignees, shall vest is each as-
signee or assignees for the time being, 'by virtue ends
or their appointment, without any deed of conveyaaai kr
that purpose; and as often as any such ainignos or easioneln
shall die, or be lawfully removed or displaced, and a use
assignee or assignees shall be duly appointed, such IR is
aforesaid real estate as shall remain unsold or unconveyed
shall by virtue of such appointment vest in the new as-
signee or assignees, either alone or jointly with the existing
assignees, as the case may require, without any conveyance
for that purpose.
Adjournment of Examinations to Subdivision Conrad..
That any one of the said six commissioners may adjourn ohs
examination of any bankrupt or other person to be taken
either before a subdivision court or the court of review, or, If
need be, before both courts in succession and may likewise
adjourn the examination of a proof of debt to be heard beams
subdivision court ; which saki court shall proceed with lads
last-mentioned examination, &finally,and without any
except upon matter of law or equity, or of the refusal or d•
mission of evidence, shall determine upon each prodefdebto
provided always, that in case, before the mid cossedisfener
os subdivision court,,,both parties, the Wows ere the major
part of them, of whom one to be the said melon, and
the cacaos, consent to have the validity of any Celt in dis-
pute tried by a jury, an issue shall be popeyed under the
direction of the said commissioner or subdivision court, and
sent for trial before the chief judge or one or MlXss of the
other judges ; and if one party only applies for such issue,
the said commissioner or subdivision court shall decide whe-
ther or not such trial shall be had, subject to an appeal as to
such decision to the Court of Review.
Decisions of Commissioners way Le appealed against.—
That if such commissioner or subdivision court shall deter-
mine any point of law or matter of equity, or decide on the
refusal or admission of evidence in the case of any disputed
debt, such natter may be brought under review of the soon
of review by the party who thinks himself mrkved, and the
proof of the debt shall be suspended until such appall shall be
disposed of, and a sum not exceeding any exposed die idiot a
dividendson the debt in dispute In such proof may beset apart
in the hands of the said arcoun tent general wail suchackien be
mode ; and in like manner there may bran *rig all the
like matter of law or equity from the Court of Review to the
Lord Chancellor.
Determination qf Court of !beim in./avow it al/!gar
backing:mat Decision, to he Jinal.—That U the Coat if
Review shall determine in any appeal toaddilli any 40.111111
in matter of law upon the merits of any rigs( et de:::
the seder of the mid coon shall finally dniyaolwa the
as to the said proof, unless an appeal a. 1 Leli Chiseller_
be lodged within one month from such imappki4llll a$ In
case of suds an appeal,' the skeitdeatleg wli illeta taw
cellar thereupon shall in liked manner be Sul resettle, sash-