842 INSOLVENTS—PROCESS. [ART. 47

1884, ch. 295, sec. 30.

29. Where a person, proceeded against in insolvency, shall
depart from or be absent from this State, or conceal himself to
avoid service of process, the court in which such procedings are
pending shall have the same power to affect said persons, or their
estates as is now given in suits in chancery against non-residents,
or against persons who may be proceeded against as non-residents,
except that the insolvent court shall fix the time of notice by
publication, in its discretion ; and where personal service has been
made upon a party outside the State, it shall have like discretion
in setting said petitions or other matters for hearing; but when a
copartnership is the subject of such proceedings, and a member
of the firm is absent or returned non est, such proceedings shall
be stayed only as to the separate estate and separate debts of such
member.

Ibid. sec. 31.

30. Any person who has been or shall hereafter be adjudicated
an insolvent under the provisions of section 23 of this article,
and who, having actual notice of such adjudication, shall not,
within five days after such notice, execute and deliver to his
preliminary trustee the schedule and list of debts, verified by his
affidavit, as required by said section, or who shall destroy, muti-
late or conceal his books of account, or any of them, or shall fall
or refuse to deliver up to his said preliminary trustee within the-
time aforesaid, the same or any other property then being in his
custody or possession or under his control, to the possession of
which said preliminary trustee shall be entitled under and by
virtue of the adjudication aforesaid, shall be deemed to be in
contempt of court for disobedience by reason of such failure to
execute and deliver such schedule, or failure to deliver such books
of account or other property (unless .the execution of said order
of adjudication be suspended at the time by filing of an appeal
bond as provided under section 31 of this article); and the court
which had so adjudicated said insolvent may thereupon proceed
to force the execution and delivery by him of said schedule and
list of debts, and the delivery of his said books of account and
all other property to which his said preliminary trustee may be
entitled, by fine and imprisonment, as in other cases of contempt