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 5120 • EaUents in aid. [Ch.XII. Pt.II.Sec.IV. his Majesty by bond or specialty of record in the said Court of Exchequer, for answering, securing, paying over or ac- counting for to his Majesty, the particular duties or sums of money which shall constitute the debt that may be so then due, from such person or persons to his Majesty {a) ; any thing hereinbefore contained to the contrary notwithstanding. " Provided, nevertheless, and be it further enacted, that no extent in aid shall be issued on any bond given by any person or persons as a surety or sureties for the paying or accounting for any duties which may become due to his Majesty from any body or society, whether incorporated or otherwise, carrying on the business of insurance, against any risques either of fire or of any other kind whatever (6)." ^ SECT. IV. For "what Sum an Extent in aid may he issued, — Affidavit and Fiat. The 57 Geo. 3. c. 117. s. 1. after reciting that extents in aid have, in many cases, been issued for the levying and recover- ing of larger sums of money than were due to his Majesty, by the debtors on whose behalf such extents were issued, and that it was expedient to prevent such practice in future, enacts, " That upon the issuing of eveiy extent in aid, onbehalf of any debtor to his Majesty, after the passing of the Act, his Majesty's Court of Exchequer at Westminster, or the Chancellor of his Majesty's Exchequer, or Lord Chief Baron, or other Baron of the said Court, granting the fiat for the issuing of such extent in aid, shall cause the amount of the debt, or sum of money, due or claimed to be due to his Majesty, to be stated and spe- cified in the said fiat; and that in all cases in which the debt or debts found due to the debtor of his Majesty, shall be equal to or exceed the debt stated and specified in the said fiat as afore- (a) It should seem, that since this (b) As to extents in aid of sureties in Act, the bond to the Crown must be for- general. See 2 Manning, Pr. 563, &c. feited before the extent in aid can be 1 Wightw, 1. issued by the obligof. See 1 Price, 202. said^