1741: 14 George 2 c.34: Continuance of debtor and cochineal acts

1741: 14 George 2 c.34: An act to continue an act for the relief of debtors, with respect to the imprisonment of their persons, and two subsequent acts for explaining and amending the same; and also to continue an act for the free importation of cochineal and indico.

WHEREAS the laws herein after mentioned are found to he useful and beneficial to the publick, and are so near expiring, that it is fit they should now be continued; be it therefore enacted by the King’s most excellent majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That an act made in the second year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled. An act for the relief of debtors with respect to the imprisonment of their persons; which act was to continue in force for five years, and from thence to the end of the then next session of parliament, and no longer; and also an act made in the third year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An act for explaining and amending an act made in the last session of parliament, intituled, An act for the relief of debtors with respect to the imprisonment of their persons; and also an act made in the eighth year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An act to explain and amend an act passed in the second year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An act for the relief of debtors with respect to the imprisonment of their persons; which said acts were to continue in force until the twenty fifth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and forty, and from thence to the end of the then next session of parliament, and no longer; shall, with the several articles and clauses therein contained (except the clause in the said last mentioned act for setting mutual debts one against the other, which by the said act is made perpetual) be and are hereby further continued from the expiration thereof, until the first day of June, one thousand seven hundred and forty seven, and from thence to the end of the then next session of parliament, and no longer.

II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That an act made in the seventh year of the reign of his present Majesty, intituled, An act for the revival of an act made in the thirteenth year of the reign of his late majesty King George the First, intituled, An act for the free importation of cochineal during the time therein limited, and also for the free importation of indico, which was to continue in force from the twenty fourth day of June, one thousand seven hundred and thirty four, for the term of seven years, and from thence to the end of the then next session of parliament, and no longer, shall be and is hereby further continued from the expiration thereof, until the first day of June, one thousand seven hundred and forty seven, and from thence to the end of the then next session of parliament, and no longer.

Source: Pickering, Statutes at Large, volume 17.