1G62 BALTIMORE COUNTY.

equity business of said court to one of said judges for such
period or periods, durirtg such term, as may appear necessary ;
and that it shall be the duty of such judge to sit during such
times as in that behalf shall be assigned for the hearing of
equity cases, and generally for the despatch of all equity busi-
ness, and also for the hearing of appeals from judgments of
justices of the peace.

Allowance SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That instead of eight per centum
of insolvent reserved *° trustees of insolvent debtors, under the provisions of
debtor*. the tenth section of the act of eighteen hundred and five,
chapter one hundred and ten, the amount of commission to be
allowed to trustees of insolvent debtors, in the city of Balti-
more, who shall hereafter apply for the benefit of the insolvent
laws shall not exceed six per centum, and for the purpose of
providing the amount of compensation intended to be secured
by an act passed at December session, eighteen hundred and
twenty-eight, chapter one hundred and twenty-seven, there

Two per shall be paid by such trustees, the sum of two per centum on
clerk of a^ sums on which they receive their commission, to the clerk
Baltimore Of Baltimore county court, who shall account for and pay over
county, the same, in the same manner, and under like liability of his
Tobeap- bond, as prescribed in reference to the fees mentioned in the
phed. gfth sectjon of the act of assembly passed at December session,
eighteen hundred and thirty, chapter one hundred and fifty-

Discretion- nine ; Provided however y that in any case the said court may
*ry power. aiiow any compensation beyond the said six per centum, to
such trustees for any extraordinary trouble of such trustee in the
execution of the trust, so however that the entire deduction

Limit. including the six per centum and two per centum deduc-
tions aforesaid, shall not exceed ten per centum on the sums
aforesaid.

Report re- SEC. 3. And be it enacted^ That Baltimore county court
quired of shall be and is hereby authorized, ex-officio, to cause trustees
of such insolvent debtors of the city of Baltimore to make report
of the funds and effects belonging to their trust, annually, or
oftener if requisite, in the opinion of the court, and to cause
distribution to be made among the creditors whensoever and as
speedily as justice may require the same, and may pass all
needful and proper rules for the accomplishment of that object,

Auditor. and for the speedy settlement of such trusts, and may appoint,
if they see proper, a fit person to audit and state the accounts
and claims of creditors, and may out of the effects returned by

Compensa- sa*d trustees allow for such service a reasonable compensation,
i»on. not exceeding the allowance made to the auditor of the court of

Authority chancery, and said court may pass such orders in the several
granted. cases as ft may deem proper for the bunging of the moneys or
securities of such trust funds into court, and may enforce such
orders by attachment or any writ of execution.