Consolidation and Amendment of the Bankrupt Laws. 
ghe time of purchase had notice of an act 
of? ‘eommitted by the bank- 
rupt, Sunless" the: commission’ shall have 
peen sued? out? within twelve calendar 
months after thie act’of bankruptcy. And 
thé eighty2seventh section further provides, 
that no ‘title ‘to any real or personal pro- 
party: sold under any commission or order 
in® bankruptcy, shall be impeached, in re- 
spectiof any defect in suing out the com- 
mission, or in any of the proceedings under 
the same, unless the bankrupt have com- 
menced proceedings to supersede the com- 
mission “within twelve calendar months 
from the issuing thereof. 
30th. Meetings of creditors for the pur- 
pose of taking into consideration the compo- 
sition of debts, or the submission of disputes 
to arbitration, or the commencement of 
suits in equity, are to be attended by one- 
third in value of such creditors, and in de- 
fault of such attendance, the assignees are 
empowered, with the consent of the com- 
missioners testified in writing, to do any of 
such matters. Sect. 88. 
“98Ist. In actions by or against assignees, 
commissioners, or other persons acting 
under the commission, no proof is requisite 
atthe trial of the petitioning creditor’s 
debt, or of the trading, or act or acts of 
bankruptey, unless, before issue joined, no- 
tice be given in writing that those matters 
are to be disputed. Sect. 90. 
» 32nd. The depositions taken before the 
commissioners of the petitioning creditor’s 
debts, and of the trading, and act or acts of 
bankruptcy, are conclusive evidence in ac- 
tions or suits by assignees for any debt or . 
demand for which the bankrupt might have 
sued, unless the bankrupt, within two 
months (or, if he be not in the realm, 
within twelve months) after the adjudica- 
tion, give notice of his intention to dispute 
the commission, and that he has proceeded 
therein with due diligence. Sect. 92. 
33d. If the assignees commence any ac- 
tion or suit for any money due to the bank- 
rupt, before the time allowed him as afore- 
said to dispute the commission shall have 
elapsed; the defendant im such action or 
suit is) entitled, after notice given to the 
assignees ‘to pay the same, or any part 
thereof, into the court in which the action 
or'suit is brought, and all proceedings shall 
be’ stayed; and when the time aforesaid 
shall have elapsed, the money paid to the 
assignees out of the court. Sect. 93. And 
should the commission be superseded, all 
persons from whom the assignees shall 
have’ recovered any real or personal estate, 
either by judgment or by decree, are dis- 
charged from all claims or demands which 
might hereafter be made in respect of the 
same by the bankrupt or any person claim- 
ifg under him; and all persons who shall, 
thont action or suit, bond fide, deliver up 
poskession’of any real or personal estate to 
\assigneds,' or pay uny debt ‘claimed by 
then) are @isuharved “in Tike manner, pro- 
widen? totice! td/'try ‘the’ validity’ of the 
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commission have been given and been pro- 
ceeded in, within the time and in the manner 
aforesaid. Sect. 94. 3 APY IBS 
34th. No commission, adjudication; 
conveyance, or certificate is’ to be received 
in evidence, unless entered of record. ‘Sects 
96. And by the ninety-eighth’ section, 
commissions, deeds, and other instruments 
relating to the estates and effects of bank- 
rupts are exempt from stamp-duty, as are 
also all sales of the real or personal estate 
from auction-duty. 
35th. The commissioners may at all 
times summon the assignees before them, 
and require them to produce all books, 
papers, deeds, writings, and other docu- 
ments relating to the bankruptcy in their 
possession ; and if when so summoned they 
do not attend at the time appointed (having 
no lawful impediment allowed by the com- 
missioners), the commissioners may cause 
them to be brought before them, and on 
their refusing to produce such books, &c., 
they may commit them to prison, there to 
remain without bail, until they submit 
themselves to the commissioners. Sect.101. 
36th. The commissioners shall, at the 
meeting appointed for the last examination 
of the bankrupt, appoint a public meeting, 
not Sooner than four calendar months from 
the issuing of the commission, nor later 
than six calendar months from the bank- 
rupt’s last examination, to audit the ac- 
counts of the assignees ; of which meeting 
and the purport thereof, they are to give 
twenty-one days’ notice in the London 
Gazette. Sect. 106. 
37th. Any assignee haying, either in his 
own hands or at any bankers, or other- 
wise subject to his order or disposition, or 
to his knowledge, in the hands of, or in the 
order and disposition of himself and any 
co-assignee or co-assignees, or of any or 
either of them, any unclaimed dividend or 
dividends amounting to £50, and shall not 
within six months after this act has taken 
effect, or two calendar months after the 
expiration of one year after the declaration 
and order of payment of such dividend 
or dividends made by the commissioners, 
either pay to the creditors or cause a certi- 
ficate thereof to be filed in the office of the 
Lord Chancellor’s secretary of bankrupts, 
containing a full and trie account of the 
names of the creditors to whom such un- 
claimed dividend is due, and of the amount 
of such dividend (such account being 
signed by the assignee or assignees ren- 
dering the same, and attested by the solici- 
tor to the commission, or the solicitor of the 
assignee), such assignee or assignees shall 
be charged, in account with the estate of 
the bankrupt, five per cent. interest’ on 
such unclaimed dividend, for the time he’ or 
they shall retain the same from the time that 
the certificate is hereby directed to be ‘filed; 
and also such further sum as the‘eommis- 
sioners shall think fit, not exceeding inthe 
whole £20 per cent. per annum ;//andthe 
Lord Chancellor or the ecommissioner's‘tnay 
order 
