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The Dis- trict should not be called upon to support a debtor in gaol and often the debtor himself could not.

Much suffering was the result as 1 any reader of Dickens will have seen : Mr Jingles lot was not unique.

Accordingly the Provincial Act was passed (1805), 45 Geo III.

7 (U.

), which provided " that if any prisoner in execution for debt shall apply to the Court whence such execution issued and make oath that he or she is not worth five pounds, the plaintiff at whose suit he or she is detained, shall be ordered by the Court.