1824] 
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BRITISH LEGISLATION. 
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ACTS PASSED in the FIrrH YEAR Of the REIGN of GEORGE THE rouRTH, or in the 
FIFTH SESSION of the SEVENTH PARLIAMENT Of the UNITED KINGDOM, 
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M NAP. LXI. To amend certain Acts 
for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors 
in. England. ' 
It enacts that the jurisdiction of justices 
of the peace at quarter-sessions shall, from 
and after the Ist September 1824, be repeal- 
ed, except as to the principality of Wales ; 
and that prisoners, except in. Middlesex, or 
Surrey, or City of London, or Borough of 
Southwark, be, by order of court, brought 
up to court-house of assize, or other town 
in county, or county of a city or town, 
where imprisoned within four months after 
date of order, and be there heard, dis- 
charged, or remanded by one commissioner, 
as if done by the court; and that an addi- 
tional commissioner be appointed, three of 
whom are to make circuits, three times in 
each year if requisite, and the other to pre- 
side in the court. The court, or commis- 
sioners on circuit, shall appoint fit persons 
to be examiners of the accounts of prisoners, 
and of their schedules, 
Cap. LXII. Zo amend the several 
Acts for the Encouragement of Banks 
_ for Savings in England and Ireland. 
It enacts, that from and after the 20th of 
November 1824, no sums shall be paid into 
any Savings’ Bank in England or Ireland, 
by any person, without disclosing his or 
her name to the trustees of such bank ; and 
it shall not be lawful for trustees to receive 
from any one depositor, any sum or sums 
exceeding £50 in the whole during the 
year next ensuing, or exceeding £30 in the 
whole, exclusive of interest, in any one 
year afterwards, ending on the 20th of No- 
vember ; nor to receive from any depositor 
any sum or sums whatever, which shall 
make the sum, to which such depositor 
shall be entitled, exceed £200 in the 
- Whole, exclusive of interest ; but deposi- 
tors may withdraw such sums, and again 
deposit the same, or other sums, not ex- 
ceeding the amounts aforesaid, during any 
such year. And persons entitled to any 
benefit from any savings’ bank shall not 
make any deposit in any other savings’ 
bank, and shall make a delaration to that 
effect ; and in case any such declaration shall 
not be true, every such person shall forfeit 
all right to any deposit in every such 
savings’ bank. 
Cap. LXXII. To relieve Bankers 
in Ireland from divers restraints imposed 
by the Provisions of 29 Geo. II, and to 
render all and each of the Members of 
certain Co-partnerships of Bankers, 
which may be established, liakle to the 
Engagements of such Co-partnerships, 
and to enable such Co-partnerships to 
sue and be sued in the name of their Pub- 
lic Officers. 
It repeals the clauses of the Irish Act of 
29 George II., which required that the 
name of every banker should be mentioned 
in, or subscribed to all notes and receipts 
to be issued by such banker ; and that no 
banker should trade or traffic as merchants 
in goods imported or exported. 
It enacts, that before any promissory 
note or bill for money, payable to bearer 
on demand, should, at any time between 
the 25th March in any year and the 25th 
of March following, be issued: by any so- 
ciety or co-partnership, consisting of more 
than six in number, and who shall have 
their establishments and houses of busi- 
ness at any place not less than fifty miles 
distant from Dublin, and who shall carry 
on the trade of bankers, and shall issue 
notes payable on demand; an entry and 
register of the firm, or name of such so- 
ciety or co-partnership, and of the proper 
names and places of abode of all the per- 
sons engaged in such society or co-part- 
nership, shall be entered in a book, to 
be kept at the stamp-cffice in Dublin, 
and such entry or register shall specify 
the name of some individual of such so- 
ciety or co-partnership, who shall be 
considered as the public officer of such 
society, and the title or description of such 
officer, in whose name such society shall 
sue and be sued ; and also the name of every 
town and place where any such promissory 
notes shall be issued or made payable by 
any such. society or co-partnership, or by 
any of their agents, and the name, title, 
and description of every such public officer 
shall be mentioned in or subscribed to all 
notes or receipts, to be issued by or on be- 
half of such society or co-partnership, on 
pain of £100, and certificates of such entry 
_ and register shall be granted by the com- 
missioners of stamps. 
And if, after one calender month after 
passing of the act, any society or co-part- 
nership of persons exceeding six in num- 
ber (except the governor and company of 
the bank of Ireland) shall issue such pro- 
missory notes without such entry and re- 
gistry, and a certificate thereof, every such 
society or co-partnership shall, for every 
such neglect or offence, forfeit £500 British 
currency. 
And this act shall, at all times, extend 
to the members for the time being, during 
the continuance of such society or co-part- 
nership. ‘ 
Cap. 
