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the bond of the permanent trustee; take acknowledgments to
the deeds to the preliminary and permanent trustees, and fix
the day or days for the insolvent to appear and answer inter-
rogatories or allegations, and order notices to be given to the
creditors under such rules as the circuit courts may prescribe,
and shall receive as compensation 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 section 23, but shall
submit every such application, together with all such petitions
then pending against such applicant, to one of the judges of the
said courts for this action.

1888, art 47, sec. 19. 1860, art. 48, sec. 17 1854, ch. 193, sec. 17.
1880, ch. 172

19. The clerk of the court of common pleas of Baltimore
city may appoint from among the clerks in his office one who
shall have the power vested in the clerks of the circuit courts
by the preceding sections of this article, and shall also have
power to receive the answers of insolvents to interrogatories,
and to report on such interrogatories and answers to the court,
and who shall receive such compensation as said clerk of the
court of common pleas of Baltimore city may prescribe, to be
paid by the parties applying for the benefit of this article,
which compensation shall not be less than two dollars, nor
more than ten dollars to each applicant, according to the
difficulties of the respective cases; and all sums of money
received from all such applicants by the said clerk, beyond
the aggregate of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, shall be
paid into the treasury of the State.

Ibid. sec. 20. 1860, art 48, sec. 18. 1854, ch. 193, sec 18. 1880, ch. 172. '

20. The court may allow to the preliminary trustee commis-
sions not exceeding two per cent., and to the permanent trustee
commissions not exceeding six per cent., upon the estate of the
insolvent.

Ibid. sec. 21. 1860, art. 48, sec. 19. 1854, ch. 193, sec. 19.

21. Any creditor may examine orally any insolvent, or any
one to whom he has conveyed property, or may have an issue
made and tried by a jury; and any creditor may file allegations
of fraud at any time within two years after the time of the
final discharge of on insolvent, and have issues made thereon
and tried by a jury; and if such issues be found against the