A.D. 1711. Anno decimo Ann^ Regins. C. 15, 525 • once'in four Years, and fome Doubt having arifen on what is to be underftood by any Seffions of the Peace
- -to be holden for any Part thereof;' therefore for explaining the fame Words, and avoiding any Difpute
•that may hereafter be made touching the ConflrucSion thereof; Be it enaiSled and declared. That the fame •fhall be conftrued to extend, not only to any Seflions of the Peace to be holden for any of the Ridings within the faid County of Tork, but alfo to any Seffions of the Peace that fhall be holden by Adjournment for any Part of the faid Ridings, or any of them. VI. Provided neverthelefs. That if any Perfon interefted in fuch Eftate, as will qualify him to ferve on Not toex'cnj to Juries, of the clear yearly Value of one hundred and fifty Pounds, or of any greater yearly Value, fhall '=^='"P' ^"y ^r- ferve as a Juror at any of the faid Seffions or Adjournments, he fhall not thereby be exempted from ferving '°"s"°""'""s as a Juror at the Affizes or general Gaol Delivery to be holden for the faid County of Tori; for the faid Term AffizTs'for the* of four Years, or any other Term ; any thing in the faid recited Adls, or any of them, or in this prefent feid County... Aft, contained to the contrary thereof in any wife notvvithflanding. VIT. Provided neverthelefs. That nothing in this Aft be conftrued ■ to extend to repeal or alter any of Nnr to repeal, the Powers or Privileges granted or confirmed to the Juflices of the Peace of the County of Devan, by an ^^y I'ower ASt pafTed in the laft Seffion of Parliament, intituled, Jn Ad for ratifying fever al Purchafes lately made with |"""', "J ^^ the publick Stock of the County of Devon ; and for mahing further Purchafes for the Ufe of the faid County with ■,o„'"^by°hc lti-< the ■publick Stock thereof -, and alfo for regulating and better Employment of the publick Stock of the faid Countj/. vate Aft of 9 Anns, c,4» CAP. XV. An Aft for repealing a Claufe in the Statute made in the twenty-firft Year of the Reign of King James the Firft, intituled. An A5i for the further Befcription of a Bankrupt^ and Re- lief of Creditors agaiyift fuch as floall become Bankrupts, and for infliSIing corporal Ftinifhment vpon the Bankrupts^ in fome fpeclal Cafes, which makes Defcriptions ol Bankrupts; and for the Explanation of the Laws relating to Bankruptcy, in cafe of Partnerfliip. HEREAS by an Aft made in the one and twentieth Year of the Reign of King James the sj jac.x. ctj^ Firft, intituled. An Ad for the further Defcriptlon of a Bankrupt, and Relief of Creditors agairfl ' fuch as fhall become Bankrupts, and for tnfiding corporal Punifh7nent upon the Bankrupts, in fome fpecial Cafes ; ' it is, (amongft other Things) enafted, That all and every Perfon or Perfons ufing, or that fhould ufe the
- Trade of Merchandize, by way of bargaining, exchange, bartering, chevifance, or otherwife, in grofs
' or by retail, or feeking his or her Living by buying and felling, or that fhould ufe the Trade or Pro- ' feffion of a Scrivener, receiving other Mens Monies or Eftates into his Truft or Cuftody, who, at any ' Time after the End of the faid Seffion of Parliament, being indebted to any Perfon or Perfons in the Sum ' of one hundred Pounds or more, fhould not pay or otherwife compound for the fame within fix Months ' next after the fame fhould grow due, and the Debtor be arrefled for the fame, or within fix Months after ' an original Writ fued out to recover the faid Debt, and Notice thereof given unto him, or left in Wri- ' ting at his or their Dwelling-houfe or laft Place of Abode, or being arrefted for the Sum of one hun- ' dred Pounds or more of juft Debt or Debts, fhould, at any Time after fuch Arreft, procure his Enlarge- ' ment by putung in common or hired Bail, fhould be accounted and adjudged a Bankrupt to all Intents 34^3?-^-8. ' and Purpofes, and in the faid Cafes of Arreft, or getting forth by common or hired Bail, from the Time '^■^; '3 -'•'"• 7" ' of his or her faid firft Arreft : And whereas it is found by Experience, That many and great Mifchiefs 1,%,'-. i.^^. /q. ' and Inconveniences have happened, efpecially of late, to Trade and Credit in general, by reafon of the Afier Apdi 20, ' faid Defcriptions of a Bankrupt ".' For Remedy thereof for the future; Be it enafted by the Qiieen's lyn-theie- moft Excellent Majefty, by and with the Advice and Confent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and ^■'": ^^> f'*^' Commons, in this p-efent Parliament afTembled, and by Authority of the fame. That the faid Aft, and ^^ j?g^]^'^j^'i.^l'" alfo all and every other Aft and Afts of Parliament whatfoever, fo far forth as they relate to the faid lion'of as'anic- Defcriptions of a Bankrupt, be, from and after the twentieth Day of April in the Year of our Lord one rupt, repealed. thoufand feven hundred and twelve, repealed and made void ; and that no Perfon or Perfons whatfoever, ^"c-. Ahr. v. i. within the faid Defcriptions, or any of them, fhall, from and after the faid twentieth Day of April, for -^7- J'^'codP. i. or by Reafon of the fame, be taken or adjudged to be within the Statute or Statutes of Bankrupt what- ^ " foever. II. Provided neverthelefs, and be it enafted by the Authority aforefaid. That no Aft, Sale, or Difpo- ^'"^ to fruftrats fition of any the Eftate of fuch Perfons within the fiiid Defcriptions, or any Diftribution of the fame, by ^"/pYtVeEflate tes or under any Commiffion or Commiffions of Bankrupcy, before the faid twentieth Day oi April, taken yf iVchPeifons. out againft luch Perfon or Perfons, fliall be hereby impeached or fruftrated, but that the fame fhall be en- by am- Con-mii-i joyed for and towards Satisfaftion of the Debts for which the fame have been difpoftd or diftribiited. "^of laken out ' III. And whereas a Doubt has arifen upon an Aft made in the fourth Year of her Majefty 's -Reign, ^'^"■^ '^Ij' intituled. An Ad to prevent Frauds frequently committed by Bankrupts, whether the Difcharge of a Bank- ^^' '" ■?■■'• from the Debts by him, her, or them due and owing at the Time that he, fhe, or they did become a ppt j,^ ;.;i-^h^ Bankrupt, fhall not be conftrued, nor was meant or intended to releafe or difcharge any other Perfon or ed, Perfons who was or v.'ere Partner or Partners with the faid Bankrupt in Trade, at the Time he, file, or they became a Bankrupt, or then flood jointly hound, or had made any joint Contraft together with fuch Bankrupt or Bankrupts, for the fame Debt or Debts from which he was difcharged, as aforefaid, but that notwithftanding fuch Difcharge, fuch Partner and Partners, joint Obligor and Obligors, and joint Con- traftors
