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against any person for acting under them were discharged, 

 annulled, and utterly made void and of no effect. The rules 

 of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Madras made in 

 pursuance of this enactment will be found in the Appendix 

 to Sir Thomas Strange's Notes of Cases at Madras, but need 

 not be more particularly noticed here, as they were virtually 

 abrogated by the Statute 9 Greo. IV, c. 73, which established 

 Courts for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors to be holden within 

 the respective limits of the Towns of Calcutta, Madras, and 

 Bombay, by any one Judge of the Supreme Courts at these 

 Presidencies respectively. 110 This Act was to continue in force 

 only until the first day of March 1833, but was continued by 

 2 William IV, c. 43, till the 1st March 1836. The law 

 was amended by 4 and 5 William IV, c. 79, and both the 

 original and amending Act further continued by 6 and 7 

 William IV, c. 47, till the 1st March 1839, and from thence 

 till the end of the then next Session of Parliament. 111 By 3 

 and 4 Vic, c. 80, they were further continued till the 1st 

 March 1845, and from thence to the end of the then next 

 Session of Parliament ; and by 9 and 10 Vic, c. 14, they 

 were continued till the 1st March 1847, and from thence to 

 the end of the then next Session of Parliament. In the last- 

 mentioned session it was enacted by the Statute 11 Vic, 

 c. 21, that they should be continued until the 31st July 1848, 

 and that from and after that day they should be repealed, 

 and the proceedings of the Courts regulated by the provisions 

 of the last-mentioned statute. 



By the 17th clause of the first Charter of the High Court 

 (26th June 1862) it was ordained that the Court for the 

 Relief of Insolvent Debtors at Madras should be held before 



110 As to the very doubtful benefit of this statute see a letter from Sir 

 Ralph Palmer, C.J., to the Right Honorable C. Grant, dated 3rd July 1835. 

 — Chief Justice's Letter Book, vol. iv, N.S., p. 13. 



111 The original Act was also continued till the 1st March 1839 by Act IV 

 of 1836. 



