1809.] 
shall be deemed an election not to pro- 
ceed against the bankrupt by action, in 
respect Of such debt. 
Persons effecting policies of insurance 
with underwriters, who become bank- 
rupts, may prove the loss, though not 
interested in the policy, if the assured 
as notin that part-of the kingdom, 
Annuity creditors may be admiited to 
prove the value-under any commission, 
such value being ascertained by the com- 
missioners. 
The. signature and consent of three 
parts in five, i in number and value, of the 
creditors of the bankrupt, to the allow- 
ance of his certificate and discharge, 
shall be sufficient to authorise all acts to 
be done by the chancellor and commis- 
pioners for his benefit. 
Bankrupts entitled to leases, or agree- 
. ments for lands, delivering up the same 
to assignees, are not hable afterwards 
for the rent, nor in set of the cove- 
nants. 
By 49th Geo. III. ¢. 122, pilots, boat- 
men, liovellers, and arhersh are to de- 
posit anchors, 
materials, taken possession of by them, 
insuch warebouse as the vice-admiral of 
the port shall appoint, for safe custody, 
till claimed by the owners, on pain of 
-being convicted as receivers of stolen 
goods. 
If the articles are not claimed within 
a year and a day, they are to be sold, 
-and the produce applied. 
If the owners and salvors cannot agree 
respecting the amount of salvage, or the 
value of the articles, two justices shall 
determine the difference; and if the jus- 
tices cannot agree, they shall nominate a 
third person conversant in maritime af- 
fairs, who shall determine. 
-Two justices may, in like manner, de- 
termive upon remuneration to be made 
for services rendered to ships in distress, 
or otherwise, which decision of the jus- 
- tices in this case shali be final, unless an 
appeal be made to the High Court of 
Admiralty. 
The persons named by the justices, to 
decide on the amount of salvage, are 
each to receive two guineas from the - 
owners. 
Persons cutting away or defacing buoy 
ropes, or other marks, are guilty of felony, : 
and may be transported for seven years, 
or imprisoned. Purchasers of goods, 
stolen from a ship in distress, or other- 
wise, are liable to like punishment. _ 
Masters of ships, bound to ports be- . 
yond the seas, finding or taking on board 
_ New Acts of the British Legislature. 
cables, and other ship’s 
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anchors and other articles, are to report 
the same to the Trinity house, and, on 
their arrival in England, deposit the 
same, on pain of forfeiting not more than 
2001. nor less than 501 ; and pilots, 
hovellers, boatmen, and’ others, selling 
or disposing of such anchors, or «cabies, 
in foreign countries, are guilty of felony, 
and may be transported for seven years. 
Dealers in marine stores are to have 
their names painted on their storehouses, 
on pain of forfeiting not exceeding 201. 
and not Jess than 10l.; and they are not 
to cut up any cable, withouta permit from 
a mayistrate, under alike penalty, fora 
first offence; and not exceeding 50l. nor 
lessthan 201. for a second or third of- 
fence. 
Dealers are to keep an account of all 
old marine stores bought by them, and 
advertise in some public newspaper, be- 
fore they cut up any cable, and permit 
persons, on-demand, to have inspection 
of their books, on pain of not more than 
20]. nor lessthan 101. for a first offence s 
and not exceeding 50!. nor less than 291, 
for any subsequent offence. — 
Manufacturers of anchors are to place 
their names with a progressive number, 
and also the weight thereof, on anchors 
and kedge anchors, on pain of nct more 
than 51. nor less than 40s. 
By 49th Geo. IIf. c. 424, in all cases, 
where any order. of removal, on vagrant. 
pass, shall be suspended, any other justice 
of the county or place, where such removal 
or pass shall be nade, may order the same 
to be executed, and the time for appealing 
against such order shall be computed 
-from the service thereof. 
Where an order of removal is sus- 
pended in the case of sickness, the same 
shall also extend to other persons named 
in the order,.to prevent the forcibie Se~ 
paration of 2 family. 
Where any pauperis, by illness, unas 
ble to appear. before two justices, to 
be examined, one justice may take his 
examination, and report the same to 
any other justice, which two justices may 
thereupon adjudge the settlement, and 
make order in Jike manrer, as if <i pau- 
per had appeared befure two justices. 
By 49th Geo. ill. c. 125, all societies 
established before . Michaelmas, 1796, 
whose rules have been since exhibited, or 
shall, at any time hereafter, be exhibited 
to the j Justices at sessions, and approved 
of, shall be deemed to be within the be~ 
nefits of 33d Geo. LI. c. 54. 
Two justices, on .complaint, may en- 
force the observance of the rules of be- 
nefit 
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