SCHEDULE (F.)

Form of Petition for Discharge in the Nature of a Certificate of an Insolvent Trader.

In the Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors.

In the Matter of

an Insolvent Trader.

To the Honourable the Commissioners of the said Court.

The humble Petition of the said Insolvent

Showeth,

THAT your Petitioner, prior to his Insolvency, herein-after mentioned, carried on the Trade or Business of

and thereby became a Trader within the Meaning of the Bankrupt Laws.

Day of

That on or about the your Petitioner petitioned for his Discharge, under the Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors in India (or was adjudged by this Court to have committed an Act of Insolvency).

Day of

That on or about the your Petitioner duly filed his Schedule in this Court, and that your Petitioner is desirous of obtaining a Discharge in the Nature of a Certificate under the Provisions of the Act relating to Insolvent Debtors in India; and he therefore humbly prays that all necessary Directions may be given for that Purpose, and that your Petitioner may, by the Order of this Court for his Discharge in the Nature of a Certificate, be discharged from all Liability in respect of the Debts or Claims established, or which might by Law be proved in this Court, in the Matter of his Insolvency.

And your Petitioner, &c.

NOTE.

The Petitioner must annex to this Petition a Copy of his Schedule, and include all Debts established, though not included in the Schedule as originally filed.

The Blanks must be filled up, and the Parts between Brackets varied, as the Case may require.

CAP. XXII.

An Act for granting Relief to the Island of Tobago, and for aiding the Colonies of British Guiana and Trinidad in raising Money for the Promotion of Immigration of free Labourers. [9th June 1848.]

WHEREAS in consideration of the heavy Losses both of public and private Property which have been caused by a Hurricane in the Island of Tobago it is expedient that im'mediate Relief should be granted to the Inhabitants of that Island: And whereas by an Ordinance enacted by the Go⚫vernor of British Guiana, by and with the Advice and Consent

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' of the Court of Policy of the said Colony, intituled An Ordi'nance to authorize the raising a Loan of the Sum of Five hundred thousand Pounds for Immigration Purposes, Commissioners, to be appointed by Her Majesty in England under the said Ordinance for that Purpose, are empowered to borrow and • raise Money in Great Britain upon the Security of the public • Revenues of British Guiana, by issuing Bonds in the Manner therein provided for, to the Extent of the said Sum of Five hundred thousand Pounds; and the Money to be raised under 'such Ordinance is to be applied under the said Ordinance for the Encouragement of the Immigration of Labourers into the said Colony of British Guiana, and Purposes connected therewith: And whereas by an Ordinance enacted by the Governor ' of the Island of Trinidad, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Council of Government, intituled An Ordinance for the raising of Money for the Purposes of Immigration, such Agents as Her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies should from Time to Time appoint are empowered to borrow and 'raise Money in Great Britain, by issuing Bonds to the Extent of the Sum of Two hundred and fifty thousand Pounds, in the Manner therein provided for; and all Sums of Money to become due and payable by the said Colony by virtue of the 'said Ordinance are thereby declared to be charged upon the general Revenues of the Colony; and the Monies raised under such Ordinance are thereby made applicable to the Payment of the Expenses of introducing Labourers into the said Colony of Trinidad, and to the Repayment of Monies which have been applied in Payment of the like Expenses: And whereas it is 'expedient that Aid should be afforded to the said Colonies of 'British Guiana and Trinidad in raising the Monies authorized to be borrowed under the said Ordinances:' Be it therefore enacted by the Queen'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 it shall be lawful for the Commis- Power to Treasioners of Her Majesty's Treasury of the United Kingdom of sury to authoGreat Britain and Ireland, or any Three or more of them, to of 5,000l. for direct any Sum or Sums, not exceeding Five thousand Pounds the immediate in the whole, to be issued and paid out of the growing Produce Relief of Inof the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Island of ToBritain and Ireland, for the immediate Relief of the Inhabitants bago. of the said Island of Tobago who have suffered Losses in consequence of the late Hurricane there; and such Sum or Sums, not exceeding Five thousand Pounds in the whole, shall and may be paid to such Person or Persons, at such Time or Times, and in such Proportions, and under such Conditions and Restrictions, as the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall think fit to direct.

rize the Advance

habitants of the

quer Bills to

II. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the Treasury may said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to cause Exche- cause Exchequer Bills to be made out at the Receipt of the Exchequer for any the Amount of Sum or Sums of Money not exceeding in the whole Two hundred 220,000l., to be and made out as

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prescribed by 48 G. 3. c. 1. 4 & 5 W.4.

Vict. c. 66.

and twenty thousand Pounds, in like Manner as is prescribed in and by an Act passed in the Forty-eighth Year of the Reign of c. 15., and 5&6 King George the Third, intituled An Act for regulating the and issuing paying off of Exchequer Bills, and in and by another Act passed in the Fourth Year of the Reign of His late Majesty, intituled An Act to regulate the Office of the Receipt of His Majesty's Exchequer at Westminster, and in and by another Act passed in the Fifth and Sixth Years of the Reign of Her present Majesty, intituled An Act for further regulating the Preparation and Issue of Exchequer Bills.

Recited Acts as to Exchequer Bills to apply to this Act.

per Diem.

III. And be it enacted, That all the Clauses of the said Acts shall be applied to the Exchequer Bills to be made out in pursuance of this Act, as fully as if the said several Clauses had been herein particularly re-enacted.

Exchequer Bills IV. And be it enacted, That the Exchequer Bills to be made to bear Interest out in pursuance of this Act shall bear Interest not exceeding not exceeding 34d. per Centum the Rate of Three-pence Halfpenny per Centum per Diem in respect of the whole of the Monies respectively contained therein, and shall be made payable at such Times as shall be fixed by the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury; nevertheless so that all such Bills shall be made payable within Three Years from the Date thereof.

Exchequer Bills issued under this Act to be

taken and shall pass in Payment of Taxes, &c.

Treasury may

order Payment of Exchequer Bills out of Consolidated Fund.

Treasury may

for Relief of

Tobago, and 170,000l. to

encourage Im

V. And be it enacted, That all the Exchequer Bills to be issued by virtue of this Act, or so many of them as shall from Time to Time remain undischarged and uncancelled after the respective Days on which they shall become payable, shall be taken and shall pass and be current to all the Receivers and Collectors in Great Britain and Ireland of the Customs, Excise, or any Revenue, Supply, Aid, or Tax whatsoever, which shall be payable to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, and also at the Banks of England or Ireland, to the Account of Her Majesty's Exchequer, from the said Receivers or Collectors, or from any other Person or Persons, Bodies Politic or Corporate whatsoever, making any Payment there to Her Majesty, Her Heirs and Successors, upon any Account whatever.

VI. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to order and direct the Payment out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland of all Exchequer Bills issued under the Authority of this Act.

VII. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for advance 50,000l. the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, out of the Exchequer Bills authorized to be issued under this Act, to lend in the Manner herein-after provided Exchequer Bills for any Sum or Sums not exceeding in the whole Fifty thousand Pounds, for the Relief of the Island of Tobago, and for Sum any or Sums not exceeding in the whole One hundred and seventy thousand Pounds in aid of the Provision made by the Legislatures of British Guiana and Trinidad for promoting and encouraging the Immigration of free Labourers.

migration of free Labourers

into Guiana and

Trinidad.

Treasury may

VIII. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said advance 50,000%. Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to advance and lend

the

sons authorized

the said Sum of Fifty thousand Pounds so apportioned as above for Relief of mentioned for the Relief of the Island of Tobago, or any Part Tobago to Peror Parts thereof, to such Person or Persons as shall be duly by Act of Legisauthorized by any Act or Acts passed or to be passed by the lature to receive Legislature of the said Island to borrow the same, on the Credit the same; of the Revenues or the public Property thereof, so soon as the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall be satisfied that Repayment of the several Sums so to be advanced, with Interest thereon at the yearly Rate of Four Pounds by the Hundred, is duly secured by some Act or Acts passed or to be passed by the said Legislature of the said Island.

for British Guiana and

the same.

IX. And be it enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to and 170,000l. and for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to advance and lend the aforesaid Sum of One hundred and seventy Trinidad to thousand Pounds, being the Residue of the Exchequer Bills Persons authoauthorized to be issued under this Act, to the said Commissioners rized to receive for borrowing and raising Monies on the Security of the Revenues of British Guiana, and to the said Agents for borrowing or raising Money on the Security of the Revenues of Trinidad, or either to such Commissioners or to such Agents, in such Proportion or Proportions, and Sum or Sums, as the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall see fit.

X. And be it enacted, That the said Sum or Sums so to be Exchequer Bills advanced and lent in Exchequer Bills to the said Commissioners to be advanced or Agents shall be advanced or lent upon the Security of such and to be repaid, upon Security, Bonds as the said Commissioners or Agents are respectively with Interest, authorized and empowered to issue as aforesaid; and such Bonds as the Treasury shall be made or assigned to such Persons, in trust for Her may require. Majesty, as the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall approve; and the Monies lent upon such Securities shall be made repayable, together with Interest thereon at and after the yearly Rate of Four Pounds by the Hundred, in such Manner as the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury may under the Terms of the said respective Ordinances require.

vanced to the

XI. And be it enacted, That the said Commissioners of Her Treasury to deMajesty's Treasury shall deliver to the Person or Persons to liver Certificates whom any of the said Exchequer Bills shall be advanced as of Amount adaforesaid a Certificate or Certificates under their Hands, or the Persons authoHands of any Three or more of them, specifying the Amount rized to receive of the Sums to be advanced, which Certificate or Certificates the same. shall be respectively numbered and marked in the Course and Order in which the same shall be delivered, and, being deposited with the proper Officer or Officers, shall be a sufficient Authority, without other Warrant, to such Officer or Officers to deliver such Exchequer Bills to the like Amount and Value as shall be therein described.

Treasury may advance Money

from Consolidated Fund

XII. And be it enacted, That if it shall appear to the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury to be expedient that all or any Part or Parts of the said several Advances or Loans for the Relief of the Island of Tobago, or for the Promotion of instead of in Immigration to British Guiana and Trinidad, or any or either Exchequer of them, should be made by the Issue of Money from the Consolidated

Bills.

Bank of England to open and keep an Account with

the Treasury for the Purposes of

this Act.

11 VICT. solidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, instead of in Exchequer Bills as aforesaid, in such Case it shall and may be lawful for the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, or any Three or more of them, by Warrant or Warrants under their Hands, to direct any Sum or Sums, not exceeding Two hundred and twenty thousand Pounds in the whole, to be issued out of the growing Produce of the said Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, for the Purpose of making all or any Part or Parts of the several aforesaid Advances, not exceeding the Amount of Fifty thousand Pounds, on the Security of the Revenue of the Island of Tobago, and not exceeding the Amount of One hundred and seventy thousand Pounds towards the Loans to be raised for the Promotion of Immigration to British Guiana and Trinidad, or either of them; and such Sum or Sums shall and may be paid to such Person or Persons, at such Time or Times, and in such Proportions as the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall see fit to direct; and the said Advances so to be made from the said Consolidated Fund shall be issued and paid to the same Person or Persons, and upon the same Security, and subject to the like Conditions and Restrictions, as respects Rate of Interest, and Period and Terms of Repayment, or otherwise, as if the same had been made in Exchequer Bills as aforesaid, and shall be in all respects in lieu of and substituted for the Principal Sums which would have been included in the said Exchequer Bills.

XIII. And be it enacted, That the Governor and Company of the Bank of England shall open and keep an Account in their Books with the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury, under the Title of the "Tobago Relief and British Guiana and Trinidad Immigration Loan Fund Account," and shall carry to the Credit of such Account the several Monies by this Act directed to be paid by the Cashiers of the said Bank; and whenever the said Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury shall have lent any of the Exchequer Bills or Monies out of the Consolidated Fund authorized to be advanced in pursuance of this Act to any Person or Persons, the said Commissioners shall, at some Time before the Time appointed for the Repayment of the Sums contained in the said Bills or so lent, deliver to such Person or Persons, at his or their Request, One or more Certificate or Certificates under the Hands of any Three or more of them, specifying the Amount of the Exchequer Bills or Monies advanced to such Person or Persons, and the Amount of the Money to be received on account thereof; and the said Cashiers of the Bank, or One of them, shall, upon the Production of such Certificate or Certificates, receive from the Person or Persons producing the same the Amount of the Money therein mentioned to be receivable, and at the Foot of such Certificate or Certificates shall acknowledge the Receipt of the said Money, without Fee or Reward; and every Receipt so given as aforesaid shall be afterwards brought to the Office of Her Majesty's Exchequer, and shall be there entered in

proper