1674

BALTIMORE COUNTY.

The new
shall be
substituted
for former
trustees.

such new trustee or trustees to be made defendant or defen-
dants in such suit or proceeding in place of such former trustee
or trustees, by the same manner and proceeding, and subject to
the same rules and consequences as are now had and used by
law in case of the deaths of defendants, and in their place sum-
moning and making defendants their executors or adminis-
trators.

Power of
appointing
trustees.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That the power of Baltimore
county court to appoint a trustee or trustees, in place of a per-
manent trustee or trustees granted in the said third section of
said act of December session, eighteen hundred and thirty-two,
chapter two hundred and three, shall be construed to extend to,
and the provisions of said section shall be taken to embrace all
cases of petitions for or with a view to such appointment, filed
or pending before the passage of said act.

New
trustees
empowered.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That it shall be lawful for such
new trustee or trustees aforesaid, to put in suit and recover for
the use of the creditors of the insolvent debtor upon any bond
executed by such former trustee or trustees, for the discharge
of his trust upon any claim for moneys or property received by
such former trustee or trustees, and not distributed among such
creditors.

Baltimore
county
court may
receive
bond of
trustees &c.

SEC. 7. And be it be enacted, That it shall be lawful and
competent for Baltimore county court to receive and approve
any bond with surety, for faithful performance of his trust, of
any permanent trustee of an insolvent debtor of the city or
county of Baltimore, notwithstanding such trustee shall have
been appointed by the said commissioners of insolvent debtors;
and such bond so received and approved shall have the same
effect as if received and approved by said commissioners, and
may be filed in Baltimore county court, if the proceedings of
such insolvent debtor's case shall have been returned to the
said court, or otherwise, in the office and among the proceedings
of said commissioners.

Fee payable
on applica-
tion.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted, That for the services of the cleik
of Baltimore county court, in docketing, entering and recording
so far as is prescribed by law, the papers and proceedings, in the

Payment
over.

cases of insolvent debtors when returned to Baltimore county
court by said commissioners of insolvent debtors, there shall be
paid to said commissioners the sum of one dollar by each insol-
vent debtor of the city or county of Baltimore upon presenting
his petition for the benefit of the insolvent laws ; which sum
the said commissioners shall pay over to said clerk ; Provided
however, that said commissioners may dispense with the pay-
ment of said fee where they shall be satisfied of the inability of
such debtor to pay the same.
SEC. 9 Repealed by 1834, ch. 211, sec. 7, and 1834, ch. 233, sec. 7.