A BILL, INTITULED, AN ACT to continue until the First day of March One thousand eight hundred and Forty-seven, and from thence to the End of the then next Session of Parliament, the several Acts relating to Insolvent Debtors in India. 5 10 c. 43. c. 79. HEREAS an Act was passed in the ninth year of his late Preamble: Majesty King GEORGE the Fourth, intituled, "An Act 9 G. 4, c. 73. to provide for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors in the East Indies until the First day of March One thousand eight hundred and Thirtythree" And whereas a certain other Act was passed in the second year of the reign of his late Majesty King WILLIAM the Fourth, intituled, "An Act to continue until the First day of March One 2 & 3 W. 4, thousand eight hundred and Thirty-six an Act of the Ninth Year of his late Majesty, for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors in India," whereby the said first-mentioned Act was continued in force until the First day of March One thousand eight hundred and Thirty-six: And whereas a certain other Act was passed in the fifth year of the reign of his said late Majesty King WILLIAM the Fourth, intituled, "An Act 4 & 5 W. 4, to amend the Laws relating to Insolvent Debtors in India:" And whereas by an Act passed in the Session held in the sixth and seventh years of the reign of his said late Majesty King WILLIAM the Fourth the first-mentioned Act, as amended by the last-mentioned Act, was continued in force until the First day of March One thousand eight hundred and Thirty-nine, and from thence to the end of the then 20 next Session of Parliament: And whereas by an Act passed in the Session held in the third and fourth years of the reign of Her present Majesty the said first-mentioned Act, as amended by the said Act of the fifth year of the reign of his late Majesty King WILLIAM the Fourth, was continued in force until the First day of March One thousand eight hundred and Forty-five, and from thence to the end of the then next Session of Parliament: And whereas it is expedient 178. 15 that 1. The Acts 9 G. 4, c. 73, and 4 & 5 W. 4, c. 79, continued until 1st March 1847. 2. Alteration of Act. 5 that the said first-mentioned Act, as amended by the said Act of the fifth And be it Enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by A BILL To regulate Joint Stock Banks in Scotland and Ireland. [Note.-The Words printed in Italics are proposed to be inserted in the Committee.] 5 c. 113. 1. Extension of 7 & 8 Vict. c.113, to Scotland and Ireland. HEREAS an Act was passed in the eighth year of the reign Preamble: of Her Majesty, intituled, "An Act to regulate Joint Stock 7 & 8 Vict. Banks in England ;" and it is expedient to extend the provisions of the said Act to Scotland and Ireland; BE it 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 all the provisions of the said Act (except as hereinafter excepted) shall extend to Scotland and Ireland, and to every Company of more than Six 10 persons, who shall carry on the trade or business of Bankers in Scotland or Ireland after the passing of this Act, as if the first-recited Act were herein re-enacted, with the substitution of the words "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland," instead of the word "England," wherever the same is found in the said Act: Provided always, That 15 nothing herein contained shall extend to apply to Scotland or Ireland so much of the said recited Act as declares what Companies shall be deemed trading Companies within the provisions of an Act passed in the eighth year of the reign of Her Majesty, intituled, "An Act for facilitating the winding up the Affairs of Joint 7 & 8 Vict. 20 Stock Companies to meet their pecuniary Engagements:" Provided also, That where by the first-recited Act certain enactments are made with reference to agreements or covenants of co-partnership entered into on or before the Sixth day of May next before the passing of the said Act, and Companies carrying on or established for the purpose of carrying on the trade or business of Bankers in England on or before the said Sixth day of May, the same enactments shall be 76. extended c. 111. 2. Creditors in of remedies competent to them before the Act. extended and deemed to apply in Scotland and Ireland to agreements or covenants of co-partnership entered into on or before the Eighteenth day of July last past, and Comparies carrying on or established for the purpose of carrying on the trade or business of Bankers in Scotland or Ireland on or before the said Eighteenth day of July. 5 And be it Declared and Enacted, That nothing herein or in the to be deprived first-recited Act contained, shall be held to preclude any Creditor of any such Company in Scotland from any remedy or proceeding now competent to such Creditor by the law of Scotland against such Com- 10 pany or the partners thereof, or the property, funds or effects of such Company or of the partners thereof, or to preclude any partner of any such Company in Scotland from any remedy or proceeding now competent to such partner by the law of Scotland against such Company or any of the other partners thereof, or against the property, 15 funds or effects of such Company or partners. 3. Interpretation 4. Act may be amended or repealed. 66 And be it Enacted, That the following words and expressions in the first-recited Act shall have in Scotland the several meanings hereby assigned to them, unless there be something in the subject-matter or context repugnant to such construction; (that is to say) the expression 20 Copy of the Register of such Marriage or other particulars of the celebration thereof," shall be held to include all legal evidence of such marriage; the expression "Probate of the Will or Letters of Administration, or an official extract therefrom," shall be held to include the Will itself, or an official extract therefrom, or confirmation 2 of an official extract therefrom; the expression "Committee of such Idiot or Lunatic" shall be held to include any Curator or other person having by lawful authority the right to receive the funds of such idiot or lunatic. And be it Enacted, That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed during this Session of Parliament. 25 |