The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-09-08
CASES IN BANKRUPTCY.
Judge Purnel's Order to Referees and
Court Clerks.

Court Clerks.
The following further instructions in
regard to cases in bankruptcy i'll the
Eastern district of North Carolina were
yesterday promulgated by Judge Pur-
NELL
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE.
The general orders of the Supreme
Court of the United States for regula-
ting the practice and procedure under
tn Bankrupt Act of March , 1867,
which were in force at the time of the
repeal of said act, shalt govern the
practice and procedure of this court
under the provisions of the Bankrupt
Act of July !, 1898, so far rs said gen
eral orders are consistent with or adapt
able thereto, until the said Supreme
Court shall prescribe rules forms and
orders of procedure for the carrying
of said last named Act into effect under
the provisions of section 80 thereof.
FILING AND REFERENCE
All voluntary petitions for adjudica
ton of bankruptcy shall be filed with
the clerk or deputy clerk of the divis
ion within which the bankrupt resides
who shall Immediately refer the same
as of course to the Referee of such di-
vision for adjudication and subsequent
proceedings thereon according to law.
FORMS, PETITIONS AND SEIZED
ULES.
Petitions and schedules shall be filed
in tripicate; conform strictly to the
prescribed forms, each page signed ami
each oath subscribed and sworn by the
petitioner, and the sheets constituting
complete set of petition and schedules
shall be fastened together at the top
in consecutive order as follows. to-wit:
Petition. Schedule Al, =, 3, 4, >; Seized
ule B-1, ., 3, 4, ), 6. save that the alpha
betical subdivisions of Schedule b, ),
4, 6. may be on additional separate sheets
if required, and in case the bankrupt
has nothing required to be scheduled
upon any given form he shall write across
the same the words: Nothing under
this head" all to be noted for comfority
by the Referee before adjudication.
DISSOLVED PARTNERSHIPS.
A partnership which has discontinued
partnership business, or been dissolved
and had a final settlement, is not n
partnership within the intent and mean
ing of section 3. The individual mebers
of such IA partnership who may desire
the benefits of the Bankrupt Act may
file separate individual petitions, each
scheduling the late partnerships debts.
but they may not file joint petitions.
MEETINGS OF CREDITORS.
All meetings of creditors held by and
before the Referee in voluntary eases.
showing only nominal or no assets, may
be held at the county seat of the Referee,
unless the party desiring that it be held
elsewhere within the provisions of the
Act shall deposit with the Referee a
sum sufficient to defray the actual neces-
sary expenses thereof before the issue
of the notice and order for such meet
ing.
SERVICE OF NOTICES.
All notices sent or served by mail by
the Clerk, the Referee or the Trustee
in bankruptcy shall be so written or
printed that the direction, postage stamp
and post mark shall be upon the same
paper opposite that of the notice itself.
but not upon an envelope or separate
piece of paper. No officer shall use
official envelopes without payment of
postage in bankruptcy matters. Act
March 3, 1877.
PUBLICATION OF NOTICES.
The publication of notice of first meet
ing required by the Act and of other
notices which may be directed by the
I TNTrSt.