ART. 47] ACTS OF INSOLVENCY. 365

the insolvent to appear and answer interrogatories or allegations,
and order notices to be given to the creditors under such rules
as the circuit court may prescribe, and shall receive as compensa-
tion one dollar; provided, that no clerk shall in any case appoint
the preliminary trustee of any applicant for the benefit of the
insolvent law, against whom there is pending at the time of his
application, a petition or petitions filed by his creditors under the
23d section of this article, but shall submit every such applica-
tion, together with all such petitions then pending against such
applicant, to one of the judges of the said courts for this action.

1896, ch. 446.

22. Any person who shall depart from or remain absent from
this State with intent to hinder, delay or defraud his creditors,
or conceal himself to avoid service upon him in any action for
the recovery of a debt; and any person who conceals or removes
any of his property to prevent the same from being taken under
legal process, or makes an assignment, gift, sale, conveyance or
transfer of all or part of his estate or property with the intent
to delay, hinder or defraud his creditors; or who, when insol-
vent or in contemplation of insolvency, executes a deed or con-
veyance giving preferences, creates a lien making any unlawful
preferences as therein stated, or otherwise gives such preference;
or when insolvent or in contemplation of insolvency, confesses
any judgment or allows any judgment to be entered against him
by any contrivance, or being a banker, broker, merchant, trader,
builder or manufacturer, stops payment of his negotiable paper
fraudulently, or suspends payment thereof and fails to resume
the same within twenty days; or being a banker or broker shall
fail for twenty days to pay any depositor on demand lawfully
made, shall be deemed to have committed an act or acts of insol-
vency, as the case may be; provided, the petition mentioned in
the next succeeding section is filed within four months after the
act of insolvency is committed.

Willison v. Frostburg Bank, 80 Md. 211. Vogler v. Rosenthal, 85 Md 46.
Gardner v. Gambrill, 86 Md. 660.

1896, ch. 446.

24. If any deed, conveyance, assignment, gift, transfer or
delivery be made of any goods, chattels, money, choses in action,