PUBLIC GENERAL LAW.

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The court to proceed by attachment, as in cases of contempt, for com-

pelling him to deliver such property — 1819, ch. 84, sec. 8, .

709

Nothing in this act, to protect the sureties of the provisional trustee

against a recovery on the bond of the provisional trustee, in case

he shall not deliver over the whole of the property in his hands —

1819, ch. 84, sec. 8, .........

709

Allowance to the commissioners to be first paid out of the effects of

the applicant — 1819, ch. 84, sec. 9, ......

709

No person to be refused a hearing on account of an inability to pay

such allowance — 1819, ch. 84, sec. 9, ......

709

The commissioners of insolvent debtors in the city and county of Bal-

timore empowered to appoint a permanent trustee, whenever an

application for that purpose is made by a majority of creditors in

value, without appointing a time for the meeting of the creditors —

—1820, ch. 182, sec. 1, ........

740

Not less than two commissioners to act on the petition of an insolvent

debtor, &c. — 1820, ch. 182, sec. 2, ......

740

The amount paid by a creditor for the support of an insolvent debtor

in confinement, to be a preferred claim — 1820, ch. 186, sec. 5,

743

A trustee of an insolvent debtor may be discharged from his trust on

his application to the court by which he was appointed, and evi-

dence that such discharge will be for the benefit of the creditors,

and on producing the assent of two-thirds of his creditors — 1820,

ch. 194, sec. 1, ..........

760

A new trustee shall thereupon be appointed — 1820, ch. 194, sec. 2,

760

The former trustee to be discharged from further obligations on his

executing a conveyance to the new trustee — 1820, ch. 194, sec. 3,

761

The new trustee to give bond, &.c. as the former trustee — 1820, ch.

194, sec. 4, ..........

761

The trustee, with the consent of the court by which he was appointed,

and on evidence, that such surrender will be for the benefit of the

creditors of the insolvent, and on obtaining the consent of two-

thirds of the creditors, may surrender up his trust and re-convey

and re-deliver to the insolvent all the property remaining in his

hands— 1820, ch. 194, sec. 5, . . . . . .

761

The trustee allowed to retain in his hands, so much as may be neces-

sary for the payment of debts incurred by him as trustee and eight

per cent, commission — 1820, ch. 194, sec. 6,

762

The surplus (if any) after the payment of debts and commission,

allowed to be paid over to the new trustee or the insolvent debtor,

as the case may be — 1820, ch. 194, sec. 7, .

762

When a petitioner for the benefit of the insolvent laws before the com-

missioners of insolvent debtors for the city and county of Balti-

more, or Baltimore county court, fails to appear on the day re-

quired by law, the commissioners or court may in their discretion

continue the petition to another day — 1820, ch. 250, sec. 1, .

779

Where such failure to appear has heretofore taken place, without any

fraudulent design on the part of the petitioner, he may prosecute a

new petition— 1820, ch. 2/50, sec. 2, ......

779