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CHAP. 84.
Proviso.
Allowance to com-
missioners to be
first paid out of
affects of applicant
Cases pending at
the passing of this
act, to be proceed-
ed on as if this act
had not passed
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estate and effects of any applicant or applicants for the benefit of
the insolvent laws of this state, shall, before he acts as such, give
bond, with good and sufficient security, to be approved by the said
commissioners, for the performance of his trust, and for the trans-
fer and delivery over of the said estate and effects to the permanent
trustee or trustees to be appointed by virtue of the said act, and if
any provisional trustee, so to be appointed, shall on the appoint-
ment of a permanent trustee or trustees as aforesaid, and on the
order of the said commissioners to deliver over to such permanent
trustee or trustees the said estate and effects, on a day in the said
order to be named, which order the said commissioners are hereby
empowered and directed to make, fail or neglect to comply with
such order, it shall be the duty of the said commissioners, and they
are hereby authorised and required, to report such failure or ne-
glect, with the order by them made as aforesaid on such provisional
trustee, to Baltimore county court, or in the recess thereof to the
chief judge of the said court, and the said court, or chief judge,
shall be and hereby is thereupon authorised and required to pro-
ceed by attachment against such provisional trustee, as in cases of
contempt, for compelling him to deliver over the said estate and ef-
fects, in conformity with the order aforesaid, or with such other
and further order as the said court or chief judge may make in that
behalf; Provided always,, that nothing herein contained shall be
construed to protect the sureties of such provisional trustee against
a recovery on the said bond, in case any part of the said estate or
effects shall not be delivered over in pursuance of any order made,
or attachment issued by virtue of this act.
9. And be it enacted, That the allowance made to the commission-
ers by the law to which this is a supplement, together with all costs
attending the application of any person or persons petitioning for
the benefit of the same, shall be first paid out of the effects of said
applicant, but no person shall be refused a hearing, or be prevent-
ed from receiving the benefit thereof, in consequence of the insuf-
ficiency of his or her effects to pay the same.
10. And be it enacted, That all cases which shall be depending be-
fore the said commissioners at the time of passing this act, shall be
proceeded on in the same manner as if this act had not been passed,
except so far as relates to the recording of deeds or other papers,
and to the execution of the trust in cases where the report of the
commissioners shall be unfavourable to the applicant or applicants
for the benefit of the insolvent laws, and to proceedings against
provisional trustees for compelling them respectively to deliver over
to the permanent trustee or trustees the estate and effects of any in-
solvent debtor or debtors.
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Passed Jan 27 1820
Preamble
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CHAP. LXXXV.
An Additional Supplement to an act, entitled. An act to incorporate The Union
Insurance Company of Maryland.
Whereas by an act of the general assembly entitled, An
act to incorporate the Union Insurance Company of Mary-
land, passed at November session one thousand eight hundred
and four, to which this is an additional supplement, it was enacted,
that said act should continue and remain in force until the third
Monday in March eighteen hundred and twenty, and to the end of
the next session of assembly that may happen thereafter: And
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