The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-03-21

This is bill in equity brought by Austin R.
Mitchell OF Ne ton in the County of Middlesex in
behalf Of himself and IL other creditors of the firm
of f. Shaw g. others of Vanceboro' fayerte
Shaw, Brackiey Shaw, and Thaxter Shaw the
members OF that firm, who shall come in AMI join
IN this SUIT against Fef dinand A. Wyman, Trus ee
and ssid Fayette shaw, Bracklev Shaw and thar,
ter Shaw, reciti he assignments made July %.
1883. by said ii IN snd the members thereof ~
reTuinAnd A. Wyman, in trust, for the benefit of
their creditors, and re,resepti that creditors of
SAID urn holding claims t. the amount of about
(Sl,ouO, 90 Que million dollars have assented to
accepted the truss and taken possession of
the properly and hss covered a rtior
otit into money which he is ready 10 dis
tribute among the credors that the plaintiffs have
reques Ell of the trustee the payment of their pro-
portion of the moneys; that id Wyman is ready
aud willing to com " with the request Init claims
that he cannot discover all she creditors or the
amount and description of the claims of those cre-
itoTs who are known to hin, ana therefore cannot
determine to what proportion OF the moneys
the plaintiffs are entitled; and praying that the
Trustee may be ordered to sell and convert into
noney as speedily as practicable SO much of said
property as is not already in the Of money and
to renter an account his said trusts his receipts
expenditures al d inRs therein, and to divide the
money now in his hands belonging to aid trust and
the net proceeds IF such sale or sales, among the
said creditors as they may be entitled the eo. and
that notice may be given to all SAID creditors order
ing them and each of them to present and pr We
their claims against said firm of F. shaw s. Broth
ers of Vanceboro' and its several members, and to
send within thirty days from the date of said order
sworn statement thereof to special master be
appointed Dy the Court for the of receiving
and determining upon said claims, y d that the
trust create by sal in may be emf freed for
the benefit of the plaintiff and other creditors who
shall prove their claims according to such potice
and that such credito who shall not send snch
swern statements of sheir said cIams according to
said order may be de barred, by a decree of this
Court from dis urbing or interfering with any div
iiend or dividends declared and paid by sail Trus-
tee as aforesaid, and for such other further re-
lief as to the Court shall meet and Justice and
equity shall require
Aud now it is ordered that the creditors Of the
firm Of 4. Shaw Brothers # Vauceboro' be nett
ned If they shall desire TO become parties to this
bill and any proceeding Hereunder, aud 10 avail
themselves Of any benz FL they may be entitled to
under he assignments set forth in the H. to pre-
sent and prove tn If claims inst said firm and It's
members, and to send within thirty-two DAYS frt m
the eighteenth day of March, 1884 sworn stale
meDts of their said claims and interest to JAM l,
1874 to Henry G.. Nichols Esq, 40 Wa er Street.
Boston, Mass, y no is hereby appointed special
Master to receive and determine upon said CLAIMS
And any ere itors OF s I'D firm, or its members,
who may desire to object to this bill or any pro-
ceedng the eunder, are hereby notified 70 appear
before this Court at Boston, on Tuesday the
fifteenth day OF April, A. D. 1884, at a quarter
past nine o'clock in the forenoon. and show cause,
if any they have why the prayer of the bill should
not be granted and why they should not prove
their claims il they oesiIe to avail themselves of
tue benefit of the assignments set orth in the bill
or the property transferred thereby.
And said Trustee l. hereby orderei to give notice
OF this order by publishing attesed copy thereof
wi brief abstract Of the prayer Of the BILL once
week for two successive weeks, the last pnblica-
ton to be seven days, least before the piraton
OF said period of thlrty-tw DAYS, ia the following
newspaper, to wit: The Boston Daily Advertiser
aud the Boston Herald, Boston, in the County Of
Suffolk and the Norfolk County Gazette at Hyde
Park, in the County of Norfolk all in the Com
monwealth of Massachusetts; the Portland Daily
Press and the Daily Eastern Argus, at Portland in
the County OF Cumberland; the Wing aud Courier
at Bangor. in the county Of Penobscol the Calais
Times al Calais in the County of Washington and
the AFRO stock Pioneer at Houlton in the County of
Aroostook all in The S ate of Maine; st. j, Inns
Sun at st. John, md he Capital at Fredericton,
both in the Province of New Brunswick.
By the Court,
JOHN NOBLE, Clerk.
March 1e 1884.
A true copy.
Attest: JOHN NOBLE, Clerk.
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