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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

deemed to have committed an act or acts of
insolvency, as the case may be; provided, the
petition mentioned in the succeeding section
is filed within four months after the act of in-
solvency is committed.

24. A petition may be filed in any of said
Courts having the right to take jurisdiction of
the debtor so committing any act of insolvency
in the preceding section mentioned by any one
or more creditors, the aggregate of whose debts

Petition.

against the insolvent amount to at least the
sum of two hundred and fifty dollars at any
time within four months after the recording
of any of the conveyances, creation of liens, or
committing of any of the acts of insolvency in
this act specified; the said petition shall al-
lege the facts upon which the application is
grounded, and pray for process against the
debtor and an adjudication of insolvency, and
shall be verified by the affidavit of the peti-
tioner, the Court shall thereupon issue sum-
mons for the debtor and require him to show
cause within not less than five nor more than
ten days why such adjudication shall not be
made; upon any issue of fact which may arise
out of said petition and answer either party
shall be entitled to a trial by Jury, but the par-
ties to said cause may waive the Jury trial and
be heard by the Court on the issue in fact, and
the trial shall take place at the term during
which the petition was filed and as speedily
as may be; and if the petition be filed in any
Circuit Court for any county during the term
and whilst the Jury shall be in attendance
thereon, the Court shall not discharge the
Petit Jury until the parties to said petition

Trial.

shall file their waiver of a Jury trial, as here-
inbefore provided, and if the petition be
filed in any such Court after the Jury has
been discharged for the term, the Court,
or any Judge thereof, shall, upon the demand
of a Jury trial by either party as aforesaid,
order the Sheriff to summon a special Jury,
which shall be convened in not less than five
nor more than ten days from the date of such