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	13. No deed or conveyance executed, or lien cre-
	ated by any banker, broker, merchant, manufacturer
	or trader, being insolvent or in contemplation of in-
	solvency, shall be lawful or valid if the same shall
	contain any preferences, save such as result from
	operation of law, and save those for the payment of
	wages or salaries to clerks, servants and employees
	contracted not more than three months anterior to	When unlaw-
	the execution thereof, and all preferences with the ex-	ful.
	ceptions aforesaid, shall be void, howsoever the same
	be made ; provided the grantor or party creating the
	said lien or preference shall be proceeded against
	under section twenty-four, or apply for the benefit
	of this act under section one of said act, within sixty
	days after the recording of the deed or conveyance,
	or the creation of the said lien or preference, and
	shall be declared, or shall become, under the pro-
	visions of this act, an insolvent.
	14. If the notice to creditors hereby required
	shall not be given, or if the insolvent shall fail to	Failure to no-
	appear upon any occasion upon which his appear-	tify
	ance is required, the court may, in its discretion,
	fix another day and order new notice.
	16. The clerks of the Circuit Courts may receive
	the petitions under this article, and appoint the pre-
	liminary trustee mentioned in this article, and ap-
	prove his bond, as well as the bond of the permanent
	trustee ; take acknowledgments to the deeds to the	Fix day to
	preliminary and permanent trustees, and fix the day	appear.
	or days for the insolvent to appear and answer in-
	terrogatories or allegations, and order notices to be
	given to the creditors under such rules as the Cir-
	cuit Court may prescribe, and shall receive as com-
	pensation one dollar.
	17. 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	Compensa-
	receive the answers of insolvents to interrogatories,	tion.
	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 Bal-