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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

timore city may prescribe, to be paid by the parties

applying for the benefit of this article, relating to

insolvents, which compensation shall not be less than

two dollars nor more than ten dollars to each

applicant, according to the difficulties of the re-

spective 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.

18. The court may allow to the preliminary

trustee commissions not exceeding two per cent.,

Commissions

and to the permanent trustee commissions not ex-

ceeding six per cent, upon the estate of the insolvent.

SEC. 2. And, be it enacted, That the following

new sections be added to the Code of Public Gen-

eral Laws, article forty-eight, title "Insolvents":

SEC. 23. Any person who shall depart from, or

remain absent from this State, with intent to defraud

his creditors, or conceal himself to avoid service of

process 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 make any assignments,

gift, sale, conveyance or transfer of all or part of his

estate or property, with intent to delay, hinder or

defraud his creditors; or belonging to any of the

classes mentioned in section thirteen of this act_s

When deem-

when insolvent, or in contemplation of insolvency,

ed to commit
an act of in-

executes a deed or conveyance giving preference,

solvency.

creates a lien making any unlawful preferences as

therein stated, or otherwise gives such preferences ;

or belonging to said last mentioned classes, when in-

solvent, or in contemplation of insolvency, confesses

any judgment, or allows any judgment to be entered

against him by any connivance; or belonging to

any of said classes, when insolvent, or in contempla-

tion of insolvency, fraudulently stops payment or

suspends payment of his negotiable paper, and fails

to resume the payment thereof 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 insolvency, as the case may be ; provided the