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shall be deemed traders. liable to become 
bankrupt ; provided that no farmer, grazier, 
common labourer, or workman fof hire, 
receiver-general of the taxes, or member - 
of, or subscriber to any incorporated, com- 
mercial, or trading companies established 
by charter, or by or/under the authority of 
any act of parliament, shall be deemed, as 
such, a trader liable, by virtue of this act, 
to become bankrupt. 
It further enacts, if any such trader shall 
depart this realm, or being out of the 
realm shall remain abroad, or depart from 
his dwelling-house, or otherwise absent 
himself, or begin to keep his house, or 
suffer himself to be arrested for any debt 
not due, or yield himself to prison, or suffer 
himself to be outlawed, or procure himself 
to be arrested, or his goods, money or chat- 
tels to be attached, sequestered, or taken 
in execution, or make or cause to be made, 
either within the United Kingdom or else- 
where, any grant or conveyance of any of 
his lands, tenements, goods, or chattels, or 
make, or cause to be made, any surrender 
of any of his copyhold lands or tenements, 
or make, or cause to be made, any gift, de- 
livery or transfer of any of his goods or 
chattels, every such trader doing, suffering, 
procuring, executing, permitting, making, 
or causing to be made, any of the acts, 
deeds, or matters aforesaid, with intent to 
defeat or delay his creditors in the recovery 
of their debts, shall be deemed to haye 
thereby committed an act of bankruptcy. 
And if any such trader shall at any meet- 
ing of his creditors declare or admit that 
he is insolvent, or unable to meet his en- 
gagements, or upon any detention for debt 
lie in prison for twenty-one days, or shall 
escape out of such prison or custody, every 
such trader shall be deemed to have thereby 
committed an act of bankruptcy. 
And if any such trader shall petition for 
the benefit of acts for the relief of insolvent 
debtors, such petition shall be an act of 
bankruptcy. 
And if any such trader shall file in the 
office of the Secretary of Bankrupts, a de- 
claration in writing signed by such trader, 
attested by an attorney or solicitor, that he 
is insolvent, or unable to meet his engage- 
ments, the secretary shall sign a memoran- 
dum to be advertised (within eight days 
after filing) in the London Gazette, and 
Literary and Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
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such declaration shall, after such advertise- 
ment, be an act of bankruptey by such 
trader at the-time it was filed. 
And if any such trader shall, after a 
docket struck against him, pay, give, or 
deliver to the person or persons who struck 
the same, money, satisfaction, or security 
for his debt, or any part, thereof, the same 
shall be an act of bankruptey. 
Here follow four special provisions re- 
specting acts of bankruptcy committed by 
persons having privilege of parliament, 
which with various clauses enlarging the 
powers of the commissioners, and limiting 
their responsibility in actions for matters 
done as commissioners, also for promoting 
the efficacy of proceedings under commis- 
sions for the support, protection, and en- 
couragement of honest bankrupts, for the 
choice and controul of proper assignees, for 
the seewrity of the estates realized, for the 
application of unclaimed dividends after 
three years, for punishing the concealment 
by other persons of the effects of a bank- 
rupt, and for facilitating the allowance of a 
bankrupt’s certificate by the commissioners 
and the Lord Chancellor, if not signed by 
four-fifths in number and value of the cre- 
ditors to the amount of twenty pounds, by 
authorizing the allowance of the certificate 
after six months, if signed by three-fifths in 
number and yalue, or by nine-tenths in num- 
ber of the creditors ; and after an interval 
of eighteen months, if signed by either of 
those proportions of creditors, with the ex- 
ception of one, whose signature is neces-, 
sary to make up that proportion ; and also 
a clause directing interest to be paid out of 
surplus of bankrupt’s estate on all debts 
proved under commission, first, to creditors 
entitled by law to interest at rate reserved 
or by law payable, and afterwards to all 
other creditors from the proof thereof at 
four per cent.; and a clause. authorizing 
the Lord Chancellor to supersede a com- 
mission, upon proof that an offer of com- 
position has been accepted by nine-tenths 
in number and value of the creditors at two 
successive public meetings, form the new 
enactments of this consolidating and amend- 
ing act, which is not to extend to Seotland 
or Ireland, or to take effect before the Ist 
of May 1825, save as to certificates of 
bankrupts. 
VARIETIES, LITERARY AND MISCELLANEOUS ; 
Including Notices of Works in hand, Domestic and Foreign. 
N the 17th of July, the Hecla and 
Griper discovery ships were seen 
beset by ice in the lat. of 69° 24’ N, 
long. 59° W. The prospect, however, 
was very favourable, and there was no 
doubt of their having a clear passage to 
Lancaster Sound in afew days. No ice 
was to be seen along the west side of 
Davis’s Straits. On the 3d.of August, 
the Griper was spoken with near Cape 
Chidley, in Hudson’s Straits, on her pas- 
sage to Repulse Bay, which she expected 
to reach about the beginning» of Sep- 
tember, and where she proposed! to \win- 
ter. The Snap surveying vessel left the 
Griper off Cape Sedley, with the ais. 
an 
