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     e Act for the relief of 
     
    
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     Unfortunate Debtors. 
     
    
     An Act to amend 
     
    
     [Passed April 19, 1869.] 
     
     E it enacted by the Administrator of the 
     
     Government, Council and Assembly, as 
     
    
     follows:— 
     
    
     I. In all cases to be commenced after the 
     
     passing of this Act, under and by virtue of 
     
     the Act for the relief of Unfortunate Debtors, 
     
     the Judge or Commissioner shall only have 
     
     jurisdiction when any Debtor applying to him 
     
     for relief shall be owing debts to the amount 
     
     of three hundred pounds or upwards, and is 
     
     unable to pay the same. 
     
    
     II. In all cases to be commenced after the 
     
     passing of this Act, no Debtor shall be entitled 
     
     to his order for discharge, pursuant to the pro- 
     
     visions of the Twenty-ﬁfth Section of the said 
     
     Act for the relief of Unfortunate Debtors, if the 
     
     said Debtor did, within six months previous to 
     
     the ﬁling of his petition, or after the commence- 
     
     ment of any proceedings by any creditor against 
     
     him, pawn, pledge or dispose of, other than by 
     
     bona ﬁde transactions in the ordinary way of 
     
     his trade, any of his goods, chattels, lands, 
     
     tenements, moneys or effects, or want of due 
     
     publication of notice of any of the meetings of 
     
     credtiors or other substantial irregularity. 
     
    
     III. If any Debtor shall wilfully make any 
     
     false statement of his affairs, in his petition for 
     
     relief, to be ﬁled after the passing of this Act, 
     
     or secrete or conceal any property belonging to 
     
     his estate, or part with, cancel, alter, mutilate 
     
     or falsify, or cause to be cancelled, altered 
     
     mutilated or falsiﬁed, any bond, deed, docu- 
     
     ment, or writing relating thereto, or remove, 
     
     or cause to be removed, the same, or any part 
     
     thereof, with intent to prevent it from coming 
     
     into the possession of the Assignee, or to 
     
     hinder, impede or delay him in recovering or 
     
     receiving the same, or shall make any payment, 
     
     gift, sale, assignment, transfer or conveyance 
     
    
     of any preperty belonging to his estate, with p 
     
    
     the like intent, or shall, with intent to defraud, 
     
    
     wilfully and fraudulently conceal from hisP 
     
    
     assignee, or omit from his schedule, any pro- 
     
    
     perty or effects whatsoever, or, if in case of p 
     
    
     any person having, to his knowledge or belief, 
     
    
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     proven a false or ﬁctitious debt against his 
     
     estate, he shall fail to disclose the same to his 
     
     assignee, within one month after its coming to 
     
     his knowledge or belief thereof, or shall attempt 
     
     to account for any of his property by any ﬁc- 
     
     titious losses or expenses, or shall, within six 
     
     months before the ﬁling of his said petition, 
     
     make the false color and pretence of carrying on 
     
     business and dealing in the ordinary course of 
     
     trade, obtain, on credit, from any person, any 
     
     goods or chattels with intent to defraud, or shall, 
     
     within six months next before ﬁling his petition 
     
     for relief, as aforesaid, pawn, pledge or dispose 
     
     of, otherwise than by bona ﬁde transaction in 
     
     the ordinary way of his trade, any of his goods 
     
     or chattels, which have been obtained on credit 
     
     and remain unpaid for, he shall be guilty of a 
     
     misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, 
     
     before the Supreme Court, shall be imprisoned 
     
     for a period not exceeding two years. 
     
    
     An Act further to amend the Acts for the re— 
     
    
     gulation of the Militia and Volunteer Forces. 
     
     [Passed April 19, 1869.] 
     
    
     E it enacted by the Administrator of the 
     
     Government, Council and Assembly, as 
     
    
     follows :— 
     
    
     I. The whole of the Regular and Sedentary 
     
     Militia shall, until furnished with arms, be 
     
     formed into a Reserve, to be called out (save as 
     
     referred to in the second Section of this A.ct,) 
     
     for an annual muster of one day only, in such 
     
     manner, and at such time, as the Commander- 
     
    
     in-Chief may direct. 
     
    
     II. The provisions of the last preceding sec- 
     
     tion of this Act shall not, however, in any wry 
     
     affect the power of the Commander-in-Chief, 
     
     under the ﬁftieth section, of the Act of the 
     
     twenty-ninth Victoria, chapter two, to call out 
     
     the Militia, or any part thereof, whenever, in 
     
     his Opinion, it is advisable so to do, by reason 
     
     of war, invasion, civil commotion, imminent 
     
     danger, or any of them. 
     
    
     111. Each Captain of an independent Com- 
     
     any of Volunteer Militia, entitled to support 
     
     hereunder, shall receive an allowance of Five 
     
     ounds per annum, in lieu of all charges for 
     
     muster rolls, clerking and contingent expenses ; 
     
     rovided he keeps up the organization and 
     
     number of his company.