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1831 Oct 3
Bankruptcy Court Bill

This Secretary of Bankrupts under the new Court of
Bankruptcy what is he do? Answer what the Secretary
of Bankrupts under the Chancellors Court of Bankruptcy
used to do, will be of course, be the answer if any answer
be attempted to be given. And under the Chancellor's
Court what was it that the Secretary of Bankrupts used
to? In the business of procedure – of judicial procedure –
absolutely nothing. Look over all the books that have ever
been published on the subject of Bankruptcy, what one
piece of business will you see done stated as being done
by him? Not one. Under the denomination of Registration
would come the operation performed by him in relation to Bankruptcy
of any operation relative to that business were
had been performed by him: and in that case it would
fall to, be performed by the functionaries instituted by the
Bill under the name of Registrars. But the case is – that
no such operation is was performed by him. What then is it that
he used to do? To do what a dishonest Porter does at the
house of a Nobleman when he dare: exact a fee for the admission
into his Master's – for the confession that
his Lordship is at home.

If then, by the learned Lords and Gentlemen concerned in the drawing up of the Bill, it had been intended, that for this same salary of £1,200 a year it
has anything should be done, that which it was intended
should be done by him: would, in this same Bill have been
specified: but in no part of it is any such thing specified.

A curious enough circumstance is this. Under
what title is it that this same £1,200 a year is given to him?
Under the title of Secretary to the new Court substituted to the
Lord Chancellors Court; namely the so called Court of Bankruptcy?
No: but under the title of Secretary to "the Lord Chancellors Secretary
of Bankrupts –
functionaries of and in a
Judicatory which this
same Bill puts
out of existence.

Identifier: | JB/004/419/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 4.
Date_1	1831-10-03	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	004	Main Headings	lord brougham displayed
Folio number	419	Info in main headings field	bankruptcy court bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1824
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1824
Notes public		ID Number	2340
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