receiver-general for the purposes of this act. § 14. The assess ment to be levied and collected annually, at such times and in the same manner as other rates.

By 11 G. IV. c. 20, § 2, the grand jury at quarter sessions are authorised to make a presentment to the court of the sum to be allowed for maintenance and support of insane persons, expended before such quarter sessions: also, such sums as they may think necessary for maintaining insane destitute persons for the year next ending said sessions; presentment to be made yearly. §3. The same to be paid by the treasurer of the district, by warrant from the chairman of the quarter sessions continued by various acts, and lastly by 13 & 14 V. c. 10, until the 1st day of January 1851, and to the end of the next session.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS.

*By 45 G. III. c. 7, any prisoner in execution for debt may apply to the court whence such execution issued, and make oath that he is not worth £5, and the court shall order the plaintiff, by rule to be served on the plaintiff or the attorney, to pay such defendant in execution 5s. weekly maintenance, so long as he shall be detained in prison at the suit of such plaintiff, to be paid in advance to the prisoner or gaoler, on Monday in every week, on failure of which the defendant shall be released: such payment not to be made if the plaintiff can prove to the court that defendant has secreted or conveyed away his effects, to defraud his creditors.

*By 2 G. IV. c. 8, plaintiffs may tender interrogatories to debtors in execution claiming weekly allowance, touching their insolvency, and their answer may be sworn before commissioners for taking affidavits. § 2. Debtor shall receive no benefit from any order for a weekly allowance until he has answered the interrogatories.

*By 8 G. IV. c. 8, the court in term time, or a judge in vacation, may order prisoners to be discharged, on non-payment of their weekly allowance, such discharge not to operate as a release of the debt.

By 4 W. IV. c. 3, debtors in custody on mesne process making affidavit of being in close custody, unable to procure bail, and not worth £5, shall be entitled (by judge's order) to the weekly allowance, as if in custody on final process, and in d'fault of payment to be discharged, on filing common bail. § 2. Plaintiff may tender interrogatories as if the defendant were charged in execution.

By stat. 5 W. IV. c. 3, no person shall be held to bail for any debt under £10 by the King's Bench, or District Court, after the

1st of June next. § 2. No person shall be taken in execution for costs only, nor upon any judgment where the debt shall not amount to £10 or upwards, exclusive of costs. § 3. Any person in execution upon any judgment for any debt or damages not exceeding £20, exclusive of costs, and who shall have lain in prison three calendar months, or been upon the gaol limits for twelve calendar months, may, upon application to the court in term time, obtain his discharge, his property still remaining liable to the debt. § 4. Any person in execution upon any judgment for any debt or damages exceeding £20, exclusive of costs, and who shall have lain in prison thereupon for six calendar months before the application for his discharge, when the debt shall not exceed £100, or twelve calendar months when the debt shall exceed £100, may, upon giving thirty days' notice in writing to the opposite party or his attorney of his intention to make such application, apply for his discharge in term time, to the court from whence execution issued. § 5. The court may examine into the matter, and may in its discretion discharge the debtor. § 8. Any person who shall assign, remove, conceal or dispose of any of his property, with intent to defraud his creditors, andany person who shall receive such property with such intent, shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and such offence may be tried before any court of oyer and terminer, or general gaol delivery, and may be punished by fine or imprisonment, not exceeding £100, or six months' imprisonment. § 9. Act to continue in force for four years and made perpetuai by *3 V. c. 7.

By 10 & 11 V. c. 15, § 1, gaol limits shall extend over the whole district. § 2. Persons under arrest, or on bail upon attachment or other process from any of the courts of law or equity in Upper Canada, for non-payment of any money or demand, being a sum certain or capable of computation, and not a penalty, shall be entitled to the benefit of the gaol limits, weekly allowance, and discharge for non-payment thereof; and be subject to interrogatories and re-committal, with all other privileges and liabilities, as if in execution for debt as a defendant. § 5. Debtors in execution for debt, and not worth more than £5, (exclusive of wearing apparel, bedding and implements of housekeeping), shall be entitled to be discharged, upon answering interrogatories.

INSPECTORS OF DISTRICTS.

By 43 G. III. c. 9, the Lieutenant Governor is authorised to appoint (during pleasure) an inspector in every district, who shall superintend, collect and account for (as hereinafter provided) his Majesty's revenue arising from licenses to sell by

retail wine and spirituous liquors, or to use and employ stills for the distillation of spirituous liquors. § 3. In all cases not otherwise provided for by this act, persons desirous of obtaining a license shall apply to the inspector. § 4. And it shall be the duty of the inspector to ascertain persons selling wine or spirits, or using stills without license, or larger stills than those licensed, and proceed against the offenders. § 7. The inspector, before entering upon his office, shall take and subscribe the following oath, before any two justices of the district, who are directed to transmit a certificate thereof to the Lieutenant Governor :

I, A. B., do swear on the holy Evangelists of Almighty God, that I will well and truly execute, do and perform, the duty of inspector of his Majesty's revenue, arising from shop, tavern and still licenses, and will duly and impartially superintend the collection thereof, according to the best of my skill and knowledge; and in all cases of fraud, or suspicion of fraud, that shall come to my knowledge, I will spare no person from favour or affection, nor will I aggrieve any person from hatred or ill-will, and that I will in all cases faithfully do, execute and perform, to the best of my skill and knowledge, all and every the duties imposed upon me by an act passed in the provincial parliament, in the forty. third year of his Majesty's reign, intituled " An Act for the better securing to his Majesty, his heirs and successors, the due collection and receipt of certain duties therein mentioned."

And no inspector shall enter upon his office until he shall have given security by two sureties in £250 each, and himself in £500 to the king, for the due performance of his office. § 8. The following fees are authorised to be taken by the district inspector:—

For filing the certificate of the magistrates and clerk of the

peace, to the person requiring tavern license...

For issuing the license..

For issuing shop licenses..

The above act is made perpetual by *48 G. III. c. 8.

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By 44 G. III. c. 7, the executor, &c. devisee or purchaser of any person licensed to work a still, may, within twenty days, give notice to the inspector, and make a requisition for a license for the remainder of the term, the purchaser producing his receipt for the purchase money. § 3. After such notice the inspector may endorse the notice, as follows :

A. B. is hereby licensed to work the within mentioned still or stills, for the remainder of the term by this license first granted.

C. D., Inspector for the district of

*By 50 G. III. c. 6, the inspector is authorized to grant licenses for billiard tables (see title "Billiard Tables"), such licenses to be dated on the 29th September, and to expire on the 28th September following; the person requiring such license paying 58. upon application, and 5s. upon issuing such license. 5. All monies received by the inspector under this act, (except what he shall be entitled to receive for his own benefit) shall be paid to the receiver general on or before the 31st December.

*By 56 G. III. c. 3, inspectors of districts are required to render, within one month after the 5th January in each year, (during this act) to the inspector general, an account upon oath, of all monies which they shall have received, under any act of parliament, and shall pay the amount to such receiver general within two months afterwards; § 3, and shall also transmit quarterly accounts to the inspector general, upon oath, of all monies by them received, and within one month afterwards pay the amount to the receiver general. § 4. They are also required to furnish quarterly, on the first day of the general quarter sessions, to the clerk of the peace, an accurate list of all still, shop and tavern licenses, issued the preceding quarter. § 6. And every inspector neglecting to transmit such account, or pay over the monies to the receiver general, as required by this act, shall, for every neglect, forfeit £100, to be recovered by any one that will sue in the King's Bench, by action of debt, &c., one moiety of which shall be paid to the informer, and the other to the use of the province.

*By 59 G. III. c. 2, inspectors are required, upon the production of a certificate, signed by the chairman of the general quarter sessions, to grant the party a tavern license, on receiving payment of the duty on such license.

*By 59 G. III. c. 6, § 5, inspectors are not to charge any additional fee for issuing any license under the provisions of that act, nor retain more than five per cent. upon the duties thereby directed to be paid: and by *4 G. IV. c. 13, § 10, inspectors of districts are not to receive more than £100 per annum as per centage, under that or any other act.

*By 6 W. IV. c. 4, § 8, inspectors are required to furnish to the respective clerks of the peace for their districts, and to the chamberlain of the city of Toronto, on or before the 1st February in every year, a list in writing of all persons who have taken out licenses in their respective districts, and in Toronto, either as inn or tavern-keepers, or as wholesale store-keepers, to be published by the chamberlain of the said city, and by the clerks of the peace, in at least two newspapers in each district. § 9. Act to be in force four years. Made perpetual by 3 V. c. 21.

By *3 V. c. 19, § 15, every inspector shall be authorised to retain £12 108. per cent. of duties he shall collect, until such duties shall amount to £1000, and £5 per cent. over and above £1000. § 16. Such per centage not to exceed £300 per

annum.

*By 3 V. c. 20, § 12, whenever any prosecution shall be instituted by any inspector against any person for the sale of spirituous liquors without a license, in case such prosecution shall fail for want of evidence, the justices, before whom the party shall have been tried, shall tax the necessary costs of such prosecution, and the said inspector shall pay the same out of any monies in his hands arising from duties imposed upon the sale of spirituous liquors, and charge the same in his accounts: Provided the justices, or a majority of thein, shall certify that it did appear to them that there was sufficient cause for commencing such prosecution. §3. Inspectors are required, either in person or by deputy, to visit every part of the district for which they shall act, at least twice in each year to inspect all licensed houses, distilleries and shops where spirituous liquors are sold, and to ascertain whether the duties. by law imposed upon the sale and distillation of spirituous liquors are evaded, and whether the licensed inns have the necessary accommodation for travellers required by law, and to make a report of the state of the different inns and ale-houses in their district to the justices of the peace previous to the gen éral licensing day; and for the performance of such duty and defraying the expenses attending the same, each such inspector shall be entitled to fifteen shillings per day during the period he is actually engaged therein, and may deduct the amount from any monies coming to his hands as inspector; such account to be previously audited by the court of general quarter sessions.

INSPECTORS OF TAVERNS.

By 13 & 14 V. c. 65, so much of the * 59 G. III. c. 2, and *6 W. IV. c. 4, and 3 V. c. 20, and 3 V. c. 21, or of any other law in force in Upper Canada, as vests in any justices of the peace the power of granting certificates for licenses to keep inns or houses of public entertainment, or of fixing the duty payable on such licenses, or of repealing or altering any sum so fixed, or as may be inconsistent with this act (after the first day of March 1851), is hereby repealed, except the 7th & 8th sections of 3 V. c. 20 (relative to steamboats), which shall remain in force. §2. Shopkeepers' licenses not to be affected by this act. $4. The local municipalities of townships, towns and cities, are empowered to make by-laws for