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ORDINANCE No. 3 OF 1846 . 203


Insolvent Debtors.


assignee or assignees, in such case, shall be entered of record in the said Court, and
proof thereof shall be received by such copy thereof as is hereinbefore directed to be
received as proof of conveyances and assignments made in pursuance of this Ordinance .
60. And be it enacted and ordained, that this Ordinance shall not extend or be Discharge not to
extend to Crown
debtors.
constructed to extend to discharge any prisoner with respect to any debt due to Her
Majesty or Her Successors, or to any debt or penalty with which he shall stand
charged at the suit of the Crown, or of any person for any offence committed against
any ordinance or ordinances relative to any branch of the public revenue, or at the
suit of any sheriff or other public officer, upon any bail- bond entered into for the
appearance of any person prosecuted for any such offence.

61. And be it further enacted and ordained, that the proper officer of the said Officer ofCourt to
produce proceed
Court shall, on the reasonable request of any such prisoner as aforesaid, or of any cre ings and give
copies.
ditor or creditors of such prisoner, or his , her, or their attorney, produce and shew to
such prisoner, creditor or creditors, and his, her, or their attorney, at such times as the
said Court shall direct, such petition , vesting order, schedule, order of adjudication,
and all other orders and proceedings made and had in the matter of such petition, and
all books, papers, and writings filed in such matter, and permit him, her, or them to
inspect and examine the same, and shall provide for any such prisoner, creditor or
creditors, or his or their attorney requiring the same, a copy or copies of any such
petition, vesting order, schedule, order of adjudication , or other order or proceeding,
or of such part thereof as shall be so required, receiving such fee as the said Court
shall appoint for so providing the same ; and that a copy of such petition, vesting A copy of such
proceedings
under seal to be
order, schedule, order of adjudication, and other orders and proceedings purporting admitted as
evidence.
to be signed by the officer in whose custody the same shall be, or his deputy, certi
fying the same to be a true copy of such petition , vesting order, schedule, order of
adjudication, or other proceeding, and purporting to be sealed with the seal of the
said Court, shall at all times be admitted as sufficient evidence of the same, without
any other proof whatever given of the same.

62. And be it enacted and ordained, that the said Court in all cases may from Examiners to be
appointed.
time to time, as occasion shall require, appoint as many fit persons as shall be
requisite to be examiners for the purposes of this Ordinance ; and that such examiner Their fees.
shall and may receive for his trouble the sum of one pound , and no more, for every
meeting held by him in pursuance of this Ordinance, to be paid by the person or
persons requiring the same.
63. And be it further enacted and ordained, that every sheriff, gaoler, keeper, or Sheriffs, & c.,
indemnified for
other officer of any prison, who shall do any thing in obedience to any order of the obeying orders of
Court.
said Court, or of any officer of the said Court, or such examiner as aforesaid , authorised
by the said Court, by virtue of this Ordinance, shall be, and is and are indemnified for
whatsoever shall be done by them respectively in obedience thereto ; and that if any If action for
escape &c.,
action of escape, or any suit or action, be brought against any Judge, Commissioner, brought, the
general issue
Justice of the Peace, sheriff, gaoler, keeper of any prison, or any person, for performing may be pleaded,
and this Ordi
nance given in
the duty of his office, in pursuance of this Ordinance, such Judge, Commissioner, evidence.