COURT OF REQUESTS. October 20, 1847. Before R. R. Strang, Acting Commissioner.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 234, 27 October 1847, Page 3

COURT OF REQUESTS. October 20, 1847. Before R. R. Strang, Acting Commissioner.

In the matter of John Power Collins, a prisoner for debt in the gaol of Wellington, under the power of this court, at the suit ol Thomas Hughes. Thomas Floyd, the gaoler, applied for the discharge of the prisoner under the 29th clause of the Court ol Requests Ordinance, which enacts that : " Every creditor at whose suit any person shall be imprisoned shall pay to the gaoler of the prison wherein such person shall be cpnfined the weekly sum of two shillings towards the maintenance of such prisoner, and on proof being made to the Commissioner on oath of the said jailor, on any court day that two such weekly payments are due and in arrear, the Commissioner shall order such prisoner to be forthwith disch irged irom custody at the suit of the creditor so failing to pay the same." It appeared from the statement of the gaoler that there had been two such weekly payments in arrear, but that a payment had been made on the day previous to bis application, which reduced the sum due to less than two weeks' money. The gaoler not being in a position to make the oath required, the Court could not grant the application-