LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1819.

709

By 1831, ch. 316, an insolvent may again apply, where his failure to
obtain a final discharge did not proceed from his fraud.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That if allegations shall be filed
against any petitioner for the benefit of the insolvent laws of
this state, and the said allegations shall be found against such
petitioner by the verdict of a jury, then such petitioner shall not
thereafter be entitled, either to a personal discharge, or a final
discharge, or to any benefit whatever, of the said insolvent
laws.

If allega-
tions filed,
and found
against pe-
titioner by
verdict of
jury, not
entitled to
discharge.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That in all cases now depending,
or hereafter to be brought before the said commissioners, and in
which they shall report unfavourably to the applicant or appli-
cants for the benefit of the insolvent laws, they shall have
power, and it shall be their duty, to transmit to the clerk of
Baltimore county court all deeds of assignment executed by
any such applicant or applicants, and all such other papers re-
lating to the estate of such applicant or applicants, and brought
before them, as they may deem it proper to have preserved and
recorded, and that it shall thereupon be the duty of the said
clerk to record all such deeds and papers in his office, in the
manner in which deeds for the conveyance of lands are now
directed to be recorded, and to give certified copies thereof in
like manner, which shall be evidence, as in case of other deeds ;
and the said clerk shall be entitled to receive such fees for re-
cording the said deeds and papers, as are allowed by law for
recording deeds in other cases, to be paid by the trustee out of
the effects assigned to him ; and in all such cases as are above
mentioned, where the report of the commissioners shall be un-
favourable to the applicant or applicants, the said commissioners
shall cause the trustee to proceed, and it shall be his duty to
proceed, in the execution of the trust, in the same manner, and
subject to the same rules, regulations and restrictions, as if the
report of the said commissioners had been favourable to such
applicant or applicants.

Cases in
which com-
missioners
report unfa-
vourably to
applicants,
papers to be
transmitted
to clerk of
county
court, &c.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That in every case now depend-
ing, or hereafter to come before the said commissioners, in
which a permanent trustee shall be appointed different from the
provisional trustee, they shall cause a deed of transfer and
assignment of and for all the estate, property, rights, credits and
effects, of the insolvent or insolvents, to be forthwith executed
by the provisional trustee or trustees, to the permanent trustee
or trustees, and lodged with them among the papers belonging
to the case in which it shall have been executed.

Where per-
manent
trustee is
appointed,
deeds of
estate, &c.
to be exe-
cuted to
him.

SEC. 8. And be it enacted. That every provisional trustee to
be appointed by virtue of the act to which this is a supplement,
for the estate and effects of any applicant or applicants for the
benefit of the insolvent laws of this state, shall, before he acts

Provisional
trustees to
give bond,
&c.