CO129-088 - Acting Governor Mercer - 1862 [10-12] — Page 393

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his hand upon aspets- the existence

unknown to others- as

much

which is of

or more interested

in the proper realization of the Insolvent Estate. Great injustice is thereby done even to one

resident in the Colony as compared with another,

while creditors who unfortunately.

have

are non-resident

no chance whatever of recovering anything

out of the instant scramble

for

such

properly as -

Excists- when everything realizable has been laid. hold of shoved an unsatisfied Creditor choose to have the Ensolvent imprisoned, it is then for

the

time in the power of the latter to appeal fival for protection to the Supreme bout, whose officers

-proceed to take charge of his affaires.

State

of

In

order to reme

remedy this unsatisfactory

the existing law the Chamber do not

presume to profound any

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y

which would

as

fully

meet the Endo contemplated,

this will be much better left to the Experience of

the legal advisers of Government. They trust

however that this Excellency the Administrator

be induced to

of

the

Government may

necessity for such

an Ordinance

ал

be

pleased to

give

directions accor

regard

the

pressing, and

rdingly that it be

prepared. If not passed in Council until it had

received the revision

of

the law officers in England:

it might by this method all the better be brought

into harmony with recent Imperial legislation

on

the Bankruptcy question.

The Chamber however may offer

one or

tivo practical suggestions which experience has

this subject. They think it -

dictated on

advisable that power should be

given lo adjudge

Scheme

of an Ordinance

a debtor

a

bankrupt Either on his

bun

petition

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