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20 COLONIAL ORDINANCES .


and Provisions of this Ordinance, or made and entered into by the
Consent of such Assignee or other Person for carrying into Effect
the Purposes and Provisions of this Ordinance, it shall and may be
lawful for the said Court to order the Person so offending to be
arrested and committed, as for a Contempt of the said Court, to the
Prison or common Gaol, there to remain without Bail or Mainprize
until such Person shall have fulfilled the Duty required by the said
recited Acts of this Ordinance, or until the said Court shall make
Order to the contrary.

Court may direct XXIX. " And whereas it may often happen that some Interest
Conveyance by Provi-
sional Assignee where " in Lands and Tenements has or may become vested in the Pro-
ed. Assignee is appoint- " visional Assignee of the said Court for the Relief of Insolvent
no
" Debtors which appears to be of no Value to Creditors, but never-
"theless it may be reasonable and expedient that the Provisional
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Assignee should make or join in making some Conveyance or
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Assignment of the same, and that the same should be done without
"the Expense attending Advertisements and Meetings of Creditors,
" as hereinbefore described in certain cases ;" Be it therefore enacted
and ordained, That it shall be lawful for the said Court, at any
Time after the Day gazetted for the bringing up of any Prisoner to
be dealt with according to the Provisions of this Ordinance, if no
Person or Persons other than the said Provisional Assignee shall
have been appointed Assignee or Assignees of his Estate and Effects,
and if it shall appear fit, upon such Notice given by Advertisement
or otherwise to the Creditors, or any of them, as the said Court
shall in any Case direct, to order the said Provisional Assignee to
make or join in making any Conveyance or Assignment of any such
Interest as to the said Court may appear just and reasonable, with-
out observing the Provisions of this Ordinance as to the Sale of
Real Property by the Provisional or other Assignees of the Estates
of Insolvent Debtors.

After Order made, XXX. And be it enacted and ordained, That every Prisoner
the Prisoner to deliver
in a Schedule of Debts, whose Estate shall, by an Order to be made under this Ordinance,
Property, & c. be vested in the Provisional Assignee of the said Court (whether
upon his own Petition or on the Petition of any such Creditor as
aforesaid) , shall within the space of Fourteen Days next after such
Order shall have been made, or next after Notice in Writing of such
Order having been made shall have been given to him, in case such
Order shall not have been made on his own Petition, or within such
further Time as the said Court shall think reasonable, deliver into
the said Court a Schedule, containing a full and fair Description of
such Prisoner, as to his Name or Names, Trade or Trades, Profession
or Professions, together with the last usual Place of Abode of such
Prisoner, and the Place or Places where he has resided during the
Time when his Debts were contracted ; and also a full and true
Description of all Debts due or growing due from such Prisoner at
the Time of making such Order, and of all and every Person and
Persons to whom such Prisoner shall be indebted, or who to his
Knowledge or Belief shall claim to be his Creditors, together with
the Nature and Amount of such Debts and Claims respectively,
distinguishing such as shall be admitted from such as shall be
disputed by such Prisoner ; and also a full, true, and perfect Account
of all the Estate and Effects of such Prisoner. Real and Personal, in
Possession,