BANKS AND TRUST COMPANIES 401

facilitating the reopening or reorganization of said institution, and for
such purpose the receiver may pledge or mortgage any of the assets of such
institution with the approval of the Court. Before the receiver shall make
any distribution to creditors he shall prepare, state and file an itemized
account of all receipts, disbursements and expenses in connection with the
receivership and also of the distribution then about to be made, in such
form as the court shall require, which account shall be accepted by the
Court subject to the usual exceptions, to the same extent as if prepared,
stated and filed by an auditor of the court, it being intended hereby to
avoid, in bank receivership cases, the additional expense and delay incident
to the stating of an auditor's account.

The Receiver shall be authorized and empowered, subject to the approval
of the Court, to pay in full all creditors whose aggregate claims do not
exceed the sum of five dollars ($5.00).

Cited but not construed in Robinson v. Hospelhorn, 169 Md. 117.

Cited in Pritchard v. Myers, 174 Md. 73.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 9C. 1933, ch. 529, sec. 9C.

17. Whenever the Bank Commissioner is in possession of any banking
institution, as receiver, he may permit it to reopen upon such conditions
as he may approve, and take such steps as may be necessary to wind up
any court proceeding which may be pending. The Board of Directors
of any such banking institution, or the depositors thereof, representing
not less than 25% of the deposit liability of said banking institution, may
propose a plan for the reorganization and reopening of such banking
institution, of the establishing of a new banking institution, state or
national, and such other corporations as may be deemed necessary, and
may select a committee to represent them for the purpose of carrying
such plan into effect.

Such plan of reorganization shall be filed with the Bank Commissioner.
He shall make such study and investigation of said plan as he may deem
necessary and no hearing before him shall be required. If the Commis-
sioner approves the plan he shall give notice thereof by publication once
a week for at least two successive weeks in one or more newspapers having
a general circulation in every county in which the institution, party to said
reorganization, maintains an office or principal place of business. The
word "County" for this purpose includes the City of Baltimore.

The banking institution or persons so filing said plan shall within five
days after such approval by the Bank Commissioner, cause notice to be
mailed or sent to all depositors and other creditors at their respective
addresses shown on the books of the corporation notifying them that said
plan has been filed and is open to inspection at the office of the Bank
Commissioner, with a condensed summary of the important provisions of
the plan. Any failure to notify any particular depositor or other party
in interest shall not affect the reorganization. A certificate of the Presi-
dent of such banking institution or other proper persons filing said plan
to the effect that such notice has been given shall be prima facie proof that
this provision has been complied with.

Any depositor, creditor, or other person in interest who shall not have
approved the plan may within thirty days from the first publication of the
notice apply to the Court wherein the receivership is pending for the
ascertainment of the fair liquidating value of his claim, or other interest,
which liquidating value shall be made or paid either in money or in kind.
Such Court shall upon such application determine the present cash value