NEALE v. HAGTHROP.—3 BLAND. 577

to be appointed, &c. The matter was ordered to stand for hearing
on the 29th instant; and then, by consent, the time of hearing
was enlarged to the 9th of December following. After which it
was brought before the Court.

BLAND, C., 13th December, 1828.—The application for the
appointment of a receiver standing ready for hearing, and the
solicitors of the plaintiff having been heard, and no one appearing
on behalf of the defendants, the proceedings Mrere read and con-
sidered.

There does not appear to be any just grounds for the appoint-
ment of a receiver to take charge of the property in the possession
of any one except the defendant Hagthrop.

Whereupon it is ordered that Edward Pannell. Jr. of the City
of Baltimore, be and he is hereby appointed a receiver, as prayed
by the petition of the said plaintiff; and that as such he is hereby
invested with full power and authority to enter upon ami take pos-
session of all the houses, lots, lands, and other property; and also to
receive and collect all the rents of the said property in the proceed-
ings mentioned, which is now in the possession or under the control
of the said defendant Edward Hagthrop; and to take care of, rent,
or otherwise dispose of the same pending this suit, and subject to
the further order of this Court, in such manner as may be deemed
most advantageous to the parties interested. And with full power
and authority to ask, demand, sue for and recover any sums now
dae or which may hereafter become due for or on account of the
rents and profits of the said houses, lots, and premises. And the
said receiver shall bring into this Court, and account for all moneys,
rents, and profits received by him; and, when called on, reader a
full account, on oath, of all his proceedings. And the said Ed-
ward Pannell, Jr. before he acts as receiver shall execute and file
in this case a bond to the State of Maryland in the penalty of one
thousand dollars, with surety to be approved by the Chancellor,
conditioned for the faithful performance of the trust hereby reposed
in him, or that may hereafter be reposed in him by any future
order of this Court. And the compensation of the said receiver
* shall hereafter be determined upon consideration of his
trouble, skill, and diligence in the premises. 595

The receiver gave bond as required. On the 13th of March,
1829, the Baltimore commissioners returned the testimony taken
by them under the order of 20th of November. The auditor, in a
report filed on the 10th of December, 1829, stated, that lie had
examined and considered the additional testimony which had been
brought iu; much of which was uncertain and unsatisfactory; but,
that he had, as instructed by the plaintiff's solicitor, restated the
accounts, &c. The plaintiff, by his petition, stated, that the audi-
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