What shall

insertion of

ments.

CXV. And be it enacted, that the sum of be paid for three shillings and no more shall be paid to any advertise- printer or proprietor of any newspaper for the insertion of any advertisement by this Act directed to be inserted in any newspaper; and all printers and proprietors of newspapers are hereby required to insert the same, on payment of the said sum of three shillings for the insertion thereof, in such form as the said Court or any commissioner thereof shall from time to time direct.

Proceed

CXVI. And be it enacted, that no letter of ings not lia- attorney, affidavit, certificate, or other proceedble to stamp ing, instrument, or writing whatsoever, before sales to auc- or under any order of the said Court, or before tion duty. or under any order of any commissioner thereof,

duty, nor

Court may invest un

or before any justice or justices of the peace acting in the execution of this Act, nor any copy thereof, nor any advertisement inserted in any newspaper by the direction of the said Court, relating to matters within the jurisdiction of the said Court, shall be liable to or chargeable or charged with the payment of any stamp or other duty whatsoever; and that no sale of any real or personal estate of any such prisoner as aforesaid for the benefit of his or her creditors, under this Act, shall be liable to any auction duty.

CXVII. And whereas it may happen that claimed money may remain in the said Court, produced money, and by the estates and effects of insolvent debtors, apply profit who have taken the benefit of this or some towards ex- other Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors, the Court. which has not been or may not be claimed by the assignees or creditors of such insolvents; be it further enacted, that it shall be lawful for the said Court to cause the same or any part

penses of

thereof to be invested in government securities, and to apply the interest and profit arising therefrom towards defraying the expenses of the said Court: provided always, that no such money shall be so invested until the same shall have been in the hands of the said Court for twelve months at the least.

direct the

payment of

CXVIII. And be it enacted, that it shall be Court em. lawful for the said Court for the Relief of In- powered, out of profit solvent Debtors, in its discretion, to direct that arising from the expenses of applying for and obtaining the unclaimed discharge of any prisoner under this Act, or any money, to part of such expenses, may and shall be paid out of the estate and effects of such prisoner expenses of which may be in the hands of the provisional or prisoner's discharge. other assignee or assignees under this Act; and if the same shall not be sufficient for that purpose, then that such expenses or any part thereof may and shall, in cases where the said Court shall be satisfied that the prisoner has not the means of defraying the same, be paid and advanced out of the interest and profit arising from any government securities, upon which any unclaimed money produced by the estates and effects of insolvent debtors may be invested; and in every such last-mentioned case the estate and effects of such prisoner, which may then be, or may thereafter come to the hands and be vested in the provisional or other assignee or assignees under this Act, shall be liable, in the first place, to repay the money so advanced and paid, and the said Court is hereby authorized to make such order or orders as shall be necessary for the purpose.

CXIX. And be it further enacted, that from Prisoners and after the passing of this Act no prisoner for debt, or for debt shall petition any Court for his or her

their creditors, not

to petition any Court, for certain

purposes,

under 32

Geo. II. c.

28.

Records of the Court.

Construc

discharge under the provisions of an act passed in the thirty-second year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Second, intituled An Act for the Relief of Debtors with respect to the Imprisonment of their Persons, and to oblige Debtors who shall continue in execution in Prison beyond a certain Time, and for sums not exceeding what are mentioned in the Act, to make Discovery of and deliver upon Oath their Estates for the Creditors Benefit; nor shall any creditor of any prisoner petition any Court for the exercise of the compulsory powers given against debtors under the provisions of the act above mentioned.

CXX. And be it enacted, that all the records, papers, documents, and money of and belonging to or received under the authority of the said Court now established for the relief of insolvent debtors, and hereby continued as aforesaid, shall, from and after the passing of this Act, remain and continue in the custody of the officers of the said Court now duly having the custody of the same respectively, or of such officer or officers as the said Court shall at any time direct to receive the same, and that the said records shall be deemed and taken to be the records of the said Court so hereby continued as aforesaid.

CXXI. And be it enacted, that this Act shall tion of Act. extend to aliens, denizens, and women, both to make them subject thereto and to entitle them to all the benefits given thereby; and all powers given to or duties directed to be performed by the Lord Chancellor may be performed by the lord keeper or lords commissioners of the great seal and all powers given to or duties directed to be performed by the Court of Review may be

performed by any one of the judges of the same Court; and that whenever this statute hath used. words importing the singular number or the masculine gender only it shall be understood to include several matters as well as one matter, and several persons as well as one person, and females as well as males, and bodies corporate as well as individuals, unless it be otherwise specially provided, or there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction; and that this Act shall not extend either to Scotland or Ireland, except where expressly mentioned.

CXXII. And be it enacted, that this Act may Act may be be amended, altered, or repealed during this altered." session of parliament.

ment of

Act.

CXXIII. And be it enacted, that this Act Commenceshall, as to all matters not otherwise provided for, commence and come into operation on the first day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight.

SCHEDULE which this Act refers.

No. 1.-Writ of Capias.

VICTORIA, &c.

To the Sheriff of

or To the Constable of Dover Castle, or To the Mayor and Bailiffs of Berwick-upon-Tweed, [or as the case may be], greeting.

WE command you that you omit not by reason of any liberty in your bailiwick, but that you enter the same, and take C. D. if he shall be found in your bailiwick, and him safely keep until he shall have given you bail, or made deposit with you according to law, in an action on promises [or, of debt, &c.] at the suit of A. B., or until the said C. D. shall by other lawful means be discharged from your custody. And we do further command you, that on execution hereof you do deliver a copy hereof to the said C. D. And we hereby require the said C. D. to take notice, that within eight days after the execution hereof on him, inclusive of the day of such execution, he should cause special bail to be put in for him