830 INSOLVENTS—DISCHARGE. [ART. 47.

as hereinbefore provided with respect to the preliminary trustee;
and thereupon, immediately upon the filing and approval of such
bond, all said estate, property, rights and claims shall vest in such
permanent trustee; and such preliminary trustee, if he be a
different person from the permanent trustee, shall execute to him
a deed of the same, and duly acknowledge the same; and it shall
be the duty of the debtor, at such meeting, to answer under oath
any interrogatories of the creditors, or any of them, touching his
property and the disposition of the same, his indebtedness, the
judgments and suits against him, and as to any matter relating to
his business; and the said clerk or deputy clerk shall administer
to such debtor an oath that he will speak the whole truth,
without concealment or evasion, in answer to any interrogatories
propounded to him at said meeting; and said clerk or deputy
clerk may adjourn said meeting from time to time.

State v. Annan, 1 G & J 450. Winchester v. Union Bank, 2 G. & J. 73.
Glenn v. Karthaus, 4 G & J 385. Repp v. Repp, 12 G. & J 341. Powles v.
Dilley, 2 Md. Ch. 119. Alexander v. Ghiselin, 5 Gill, 178. Somerville v. Brown,
5 Gill, 425. Gardner v. Lewis, 7 Gill, 398. Hall v. Sewell, 9 Gill, 153 Waters

v. Dashiell, 1 Md 472. State v. Scott, 2 Md. 284. Manahan v. Sammon, 3 Md.
463. Jaimson v. Chestnut, 8 Md 34. Purviance v. Glenn, 8 Md. 202 Nelson
v. Pierson, 8 Md. 300 Zeigler v. King, 9 Md. 330. Maennel v. Murdoch, 13
Md 164. State v. Mayhugh, 13 Md. 371 Teackle v. Crosby, 14 Md. 14. White
v. Malcolm, 15 Md 545 State v. Culler, 18 Md 418. Laupheimer v. Rosen-
baum, 25 Md 219. Grove v. Rentch, 26 Md. 368. Dowler v. Cushwa, 27 Md.

354. Mackintosh v. Corner, 33 Md. 598. Lavender's Lessee v. Gosnell, 43
Md 153. Main v. Lynch, 54 Md. 658 Gable v. Scott, 56 Md. 186. McElroy
v. Seery, 61 Md. 398.

1888, ch. 411.

3. At any meeting of creditors held under the provisions of
the preceding section, and at all other meetings of creditors pro-
vided for in this article, a power of attorney in writing, signed
by such creditor or creditors, shall entitle the person named as
attorney in such power of attorney to act in behalf of such creditor
or creditors at any or all meetings of creditors mentioned in said
power of attorney, and held under the provisions of this article,
as fully as such creditor or creditors signing the same might act
were he or they personally present at such meeting or meetings.

P. G. L., (1860,) art. 48, sec. 3. 1854, ch. 193, sec 3. 1880, ch. 172.

4. The said court, or one of the judges thereof, may at any

time order the insolvent to appear and answer such interroga