Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-03-27

before a warrant issues the petitioner shall
deposit with the senior register Of the court,
or with the clerk to be delivered to the reg
lister, fifty dollars as security for the payment
thereof; and if there are not sufficient assets
for the payment of the fees, the person upon
whose petition the warrant is issued shall
pay the same, and the court may issue an
execution against him to compel payment to
the register. "a
Before any dividend is ordered the assignee
shall pay out of the estate to the messenger
the following fees, and no more:
First. For service of warrant, two dollars.
Second. For all necessary travel, at the
rate of five cents mile, each way.
Third. For each written note to creditor
named in the schedule, ten cents.
Fourth For custody Of property, publ
cation of notices, and other services, his &C
tual and necessary expenses upon returning
the same in specific items, and making oath
that they have been actually incurred and
paid by him and are Just and reasonable, the
same to be taxed or adjusted by the court,
and the oath of the messenger shall not be
conclusive as to the necessity of said expenses.
For cause shown, and upon hearing there
on such further allowance may be made IA
the court, in its discretion, may determine.
The enumeration of the foregoing fees shall
not prevent the judges, who shall frame gene
raj rules and orders i'll accordance with the
provisions of section ten, from prescribing a
tariff of fees for all other services of the Off
GERS of courts of bankruptcy, or from reduc-
ing the fees prescribed in this section in
classes of cases to be named in their rules and
orders
OF MEANING OF TERMS AND COMPUTATION OF
TINE.
SEC. rs. And be IL further enacted, That
the word - assignee and the word - credit
or . shall include the plural also and the
word messenger shall include his assis-
tant or assistants, except in the provision for
the fees of that officer. The word % mar
shall : shall include the marshals deputies,
the word - person y shall also include :. cor
poration," and the word - oath - shall in
clude - affirmation And in all cases in
which any particular number of DAYS is pre-
scrIbed by this act, or shall be mentioned in
any rule or order of court or general order
which shall ut any time he made under this
act for the doing of any act or for any other
purpose, the same shall be reckoned. in the
absence of any expression to the contrary cx-
elusive of the first and inclusive of the last
day, unless the last dav shall fall on Sunday
Christmas day, or on any day appointed by
the President of the United States as a day
of public fast or thanksgiving. or on the
Fourth of July, in which case the time shall
be reckoned exclusive of that dav also.
SEC. 40. lad be 1t further enacted. That all
the jurisdiction, power, and authority con-
ferred upon and vested i'll the district court of
the United States by this act in cases in bank
ruptcy are hereby conferred upon and vested
IN the supreme court Of the District of Col
umbla, and in and upon the supreme courts
of the several Territories of the nited States.
when the bankrupt resides in the said Dis
trlet of Columbia or i'll either of the said Ter
ritories. And in those judicial districts
which are not within any organized circuit
of the nltcd States the power and jurisdic-
ton Of Il circuit court in bankruptcy NAV be
exercised by the district Judge
SEC. 80. And be Il further enacted That
this act shall commence and take effect a. to
the appointment of the officers created here
by, and the promul CATION OF rules and gene
raj orders, from and after the date of its aI-
proval Pr0rided. That no petition or other
proceeding under this act shall be fled. re-
ccived. or commenced before the first dav of
June. Ammo Domni eighteen hundred and
slXtv-seVcn.
Approved March ID. 1867