The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-04-06

United STATES DrsTRTcr Coukr, SATURDAY
fhe Following business was transacted;
In the matter Of W.tD. Mason. bankrur,t
ordered that the assignee make report TO he
register W.thous delay, showing what nav.
ments have been made for the lands of the
bankrupt sold by him under the order of
tthis court dated April 10th, 1873. and hisr
| ccipts and disbursements as assignee, and the
register requested to transmit the same. with
such remarks rs may be proper, to the court,
In the case Of Shields us. Cohn, assignee,
Lichenstein, and Others, o decree was made
lapproving report Of Special Commissioner
e. NJ. Garnett and directing the payment Of
bills for advertising, clerks fees, &c. i =.
in the matter OF 81. A. Vaughn, bank
rupt, order was made to require the assignee
to make report of bis receipts and disburss-
ments. = 49,. "3.e, +.
In the matter Of T. N. Balderson, order
thatthe assignee pay bankrupt the sum OF
S43S by way of an exemption under the 14th
section of the bankrupt law, after first de-
the proceedings In bankrupty.
The spring terms Of the. United States
District aud United States Circuit Courts
will commence to-day. .r.,,,S = = !
RULES OF CoURT IN RELATION TO THE
HOMESTEAD ExeMPTloN.-1n ths District
Court Of the Un1fed States Saturday Judge
Hughes prescribed the following rules OF
practice in relation to the homestead eXemp.
ton: .-. : "'''" = - = ,, -.-, : :
When bankrupt claims homestead in
realty, or an exemption Of personally in
lieu thereof, the following rules of practice
shall be observed:
1st. The register, on application Of the
bankrupt, shall appoint appraisers in confor.
nifty with the provisions Of sections Is and
II of chapter 1873 of the Code of Virginia to
appraise the property claimed as exempt, in
pursuance of said provisions Of said Code,
which appraisers, after making the appraise-
menr, shall prepare description Of the pro-
perry appraised if realty, or an inventory Of
il if personally, and make return of the
same to, be filed with the clerk. = f.>...-.s
I'd. The property thus designated, If per-
sonalty, shall be and remain in the custody
ofthe bankrupt until the appointment of the
| assignee. and afterwards in the custody of the
assignee until the application for the exemp-
| ton shall have been passed upon by the
court; neither the bankrupt nor assignee
having any power to make sale or other dis.
position of the same unless by express order
of the court. =
ID. The bankrupt shall, without delay at
ter bis adjudication, file his petition for the
exemption with the clerk, in which, by mega
tive and affirmative ayerments, he shall bring
his claim within the terms of the 18th article
of the Constitution of Virginia, and Of the
1st section of chapter 1873 of the Code, and
shall make oath to the petition and sign the
said oath and petition.
4th. A day will be given by the court to
the assignee and to the creditors, who shall
be served With written or printed notice, by
mail or personally, of the petition and of the
day set for hearing the same, on which day
the assignee or any creditor may answer the
petition and show cause why the eXemp-
ton claimed by the bankrupt shall not be al
lowed.
5th. The bankrupt's petition shall be ac-
companied by the draft of proper deed lin
form to be executed by himself and the as
signee if so ordered by the courD setting
apart and settling the property exempted
for the use of the bankrupt and his family,
according to the meaning and intent of the
1lth article of the Constitution Of Virginia,
and in conformity with the provisions, so far
as applicable, of the first eighteen sections of
chanrer 1S3 of the Code of Virginia, 80.