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12. That, in the ease of a married woman applying for her tlio;
charge, instead of the conveyanie and warrant of attorney Tel
quired by the former Act, she shall (without her husband) csatia
vey to the provisional assignee, all property, real and personal.
vested in herself, or in trustees; fur her separate use, and surren-
.der all personal estate and effects in her actual possession (except
wearing appar.d, Ste. not exceeding in the whole £2O). with ail
assignment of all other real and personal estate to which she may
be entitled, in possession, remainder, or reversion, but subject t 6
her husband's Interest, and subject to all the provisions enacted
for similar conveyances by llther persons; and she shall also etc-
cute a watrt.nt of attorney fur the amount of her debts; but no
judgment entered up thereon shall affect the rights of her hus-
band; provided, that her discharge shall not operate as a clisL
charge to the husband, upon whom her debts shall still be charge-
able, in so far as they remain unpaid.
That all discharges under the-Act shall operate against
every creditor in debts payable at a time subsequent to that of
the discharges, equally 46 if the debti were presently exigibk.
14. In supplement of the recited Act, which directs a re-exa-
mination of the insolvent, even after hie discharge, it is enacted;
That, in default of his apptarance before the Court or the Jus-
tices, he may be apprehended, and remanded, to undergo as
many examinations as may bt necessary.
15. That if, after ordering an insolvent to be discharged at
the end of a period specified, it shall appear to the Court that
the order his been fraudulently obtained or improperly made,
the prisoner may be again brought up fur a re-bearing, and the
ca e disposed of as may be just.
16. Imposes the penalty of fine, as well as imprisonment,
upon every person acting as attorney or agent, after having been
removed-from the files of the Court, and upon all so practising
without a regular appointment.
17. Directs all affidavits, under the Act, to be sworn before
the Court itself, or its Commissioners, or before a Master Extra-
ordinary in Chancery, or Commissioner fur Affidavits in any of
the superior Courts of Westminster Dail, or (in Scotland or Ire-
land) before a Magistrate of the bounds.
Is. Contains special directions for vestiog, in assignees, the
property of insane prisoners.
19. Enacts that, where an assignment is avoided by a coma
mission of bankrupt, it shall found no action except for recovery
of property detained, after demand thereof.
20. That the interest and profits of Monty remaining in ma-
nihni Corier, and invested in Government securities, may be spa
plied to the expenses of the Court at the end of twelve months.
21. That, after erecting a new Court in Portugal-street, all
causes ate to be heard there ; and the keepers of prisons to re'
ceive only 3s. for carrying each prisoner to the hearing.
That, on all judicial proceedings under the Act, it shun
be.sufficient to stdte the ra-tieular object of the Court, without
farther recital.
25. That, from the end of 'l6( weeks alter the conclusion of
Trinity Term, until the Ist of November, annually, the Quirt
may regulate its sittings at discretion; provided that no adjourn.;
ment exceed six weeks.
24. in cases of indictment, or information, for a fraud
upon the Act, it still be sufficient to set forth the substance
of the offence chard upatt the dimidant, without further
specification.

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INSOLVENT DEBTORS' AMENDMENT ACT,
PASSED AUGUST 6, 1822.

The first establishment of a permanent Court for
the relief of Insolvent Debtors in England was
enacted by Statute 53 Geo. 111. c. 102, which was
amended by three subsequent Acts (54 Geo. HI. c. 23,
56 Geo. 111. c. 102, and 59 Geo. 111. c. 129), all of
them now expired. The present jurisdiction was
founded by an Act passed on the 26th July, 1820
(1 Geo. IV. c. 119), which received thefollowing
amendments from'the Statute of last Session, referred
to above, 3 Geo. IV. c. 123.
Sect. 1. Empowers the provisic;nal assignee of-the Court, by
himself or others, to take possession ol,and, if so ordered by the
Court, to sell the real and personal estate of every prisoner who
petitions for his drseharge and executes the proper as,ignment ;
defraying, out of the proceeds, the expense of seizure and sale,
and accounting for the residuu to the Court; and on the resig-
nation, removal, or death of the provisional assignee, such estate
shall be voted in his successor in office.

FROM. LAST NIGHT'S GAZETTE.

[This Gazette notifies that the King has been pleised to ap-
point Henry Unwin Addington, Esq. to be his Majesty's Secre-
tary of Legation to the United States of America. It also an-
nounces that Parliament is further prorogued from the Bth of
October to the 26th ui November].

2. Authorizes that officer to sue in his own name for recovery
of the petitioner's estate; and even although the petition In: ulti-
mately dismissed, all acts previously done by or under the provi-
sional assignee shall be valid.
5. Gives power to the Court, at any time after the filing of the
prisoner's petition, to appoint assignees of his estare and effects,
which, on their acceptance, shall be assigned by the provisional as-
signee to them, in trust, for their own benefit, and that of the other
creditors, in proportion to their respective debts ; confers upon
such assignees all the powers, and subjects them to all the respon-
sibilities of provisional or other assignees, under the former Act ;
and declares that such conveyance by the provisional assignee
shall as effectually vest the estate,hy relation, in the assignees, a, if
the first assignment had been made by the prisoner directly in
their favour; but saving the validity of acts done under such
first assignment.
4. Enables the Court to charge assignees with interest, at a rate
not exceeding 201. per cent. per annum, on sums, part of the in-
solvent's estate, wilfully retained in their hands, or otherwise
employed for their own benefit, during the time that the money
shall b: so retained or employed.
5. Authorises the Court, or the Justices,to investigate all debts
in the petitioner's schedule,whether admitted or disputed,or par tly
admitted and partly disputed, as well as to inquire whether any of
the debts have been admitted or disputed with a fraudulent intent.
6. That in the adjudication of Court, that a prisoner is entitled
to the benefit of the Act, and order thereon, it shall he sufficient
to refer to the schedule for a specification of the creditors, as to
whom that benefit shall extend ; and that, wherever the Court
shall see cause to order that a prisoner, by misconduct towards
certain of his creditors, shall not be discharged until he have been
in custody for a limited period (not exceeding three years), at
their suit, the Court may adjudicate thereon in the words of the
Statute, 1 Geo. IV. c. 119, without naming such individual
creditors; the insolvent being liable to be detained in prison by
his then detaining creditors, or charged in custody by any other
creditors 'n his schedule, until the lapse of the period specified in
the adjudication.
7. That wherever it is referred to an officer of Court, or to an
examiner Appointed by the Justices, to investigate a prisoner's
accounts, or schedule, the Court may order the expanses of the
reference to be repaid to the creditor advancing the same, out
of the first money realised from the estate; that the officer or
examiner may order the attendance of such prisoner, or of any
other prisoner appearing to be a material witness, who shall
thereupon be brought up for examination, the prison-keeper re-
ceiving a fee of 10s. from the person requiring the reference;
that the officer or examiner shall examine all witnesses or parties
upon oath or affirmation, which, if false, shall be visited with
the pains of perjury ; but that no prison-keeper shall be required
to carry a prisoner farther than two miles, except the keepers sof
prisons in Middlesex or London, of the King's Bench, Mar-
shalsea, Horsemonger-lane, and Southwark, who shall carry
their prisoners before such officer at the office of Court, or at any
other place within the Bills of Mortality.
8. That, wherever the Court :hall adjudge a prisoner to remain
in custody during a certain period, it may order him to be con-
fined within the walls, and not within the rules of the prison.
9. That the Justices at the Sessions may remand any pri-
soner refusing to be sworn, or to answer upon oath all proper
questions, or for the purpose of amending his 'schedule, or for
further examination or hearing, and to order him to be brought
up at subsequent Sessions ; certifying to the Court such remand
and its cause; that the. Justices shall have the same powers of
ernispellieg the attendance of witnesses, and the production of
boolts, papers, and writings, as are possessed by the superior
, Courts of Westminster ; and that the Clerk of the Peace shalt,
for each subptena (not containing more than four names), receive
4s. 6d. from the person requiring the same; but no witness
shall be compelled to Attend, except upon previous tender of his
reasonable expenses.
lib That where a prisoner has been arrested in Middlesex or