The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-26
PUBLICATION is REQUIRED
After Dissolution the Partners May
Sue in Individual Capacity Only.
FUNDS TO BE PLACED IN DEPOsIToRYS
The Papers in Which Notices May be Publish.
ed; Tarboro Southerrer, North CaroIinian,
Newbern Journal. Morning Star,
and Times Visitor,
and Times Visitor.
EASTERN DISTRICT OF NORTH

CAROLINA.
1t is ordered by the Court of Bank
ruptcy that the District Rules adopt
ed September z, 1898, be amended to
read as follows:
Rule 1.-Referee's Division.-Divis-
ion No. 1. The counties of Currituck,
Camden, Pasquotank, Chowan, Gates,
Dare, Hyde, Tyrrell, and Washington,
shall constitute the First Referees
Division, Charles Guirkin, ESQ.,, Refer
ee, of Elizabeth City.
Division No. 2. The counties of
Hartford, BERTHE, Martin, Edgecombe,
Halifax, Northampton, Beaufort.
Nash, and Pitt, shall constitute Tie
Second Division, James II. Gaskill. Ref
cree, -arboro, n. c.
Division No. 3 The counties of Cra-
ven, Greene, Lenoir, Jones, Pamlico,
Carteret, Wayne, and Onslow, shall
constitute the Third Division, Leoni-
das j. Moore, Esq, Referee of New
Bern.
Division No. 4. The counties of
New Hanover, Pender, Brunswick, Co
lumbus, Baden, Robson. Sampson,
Duplin, Cumberland, and Richmond,
and Harnett. shall constitute the
Fourth Division, Samuel H. MacRae,
ESQ.,, Referee of Fayetteville.
Division No. 5. The counties of
Wake, Chatham, johnson, Wilson,
Durham, Person, Granville, Franklin,
Vance, Warren. and Moore, shall con-
stitute the Fifth Division. Victor II.
Boyden, ESQ.,, of Raleigh, Referee.
Rure 2.-Filing and Reference.-All
petitions for adjudication of bank
ruptcy shall be filled with the Clerk
nf 1iXic
in which the bankrupt resides or must
convenient to said bankrupt district.
If the Judge is absent from the dis
trict on division of the district, the
same shall be Immediately referred
to the referee of such division for adj
iudication and subsequent proceedings
thereon according to law. Section IS.
Il. A., f. and G..
Rule 3.-Petitions and schedules
shall be in tripilicate on the printed
forms prescribed by the Supreme
court, conform strictly thereto and
each page be signed.
Rule 4.-Filing Feea.-EXceDt where
there is an order allowing the fling
of a petition without paying fees as
provided in the act. no order or ref
cree or adjudication shall be made I'M
til the filing fees are paid. In volun-
tary proceedings by a partnership.
when an adjudication is asked of the
firm and the individual members
thereof. filing fee for each estate to
be administered shall be paid-one for
the partnership and one for each in
dividual member thereof.
Rule 5.-Diseolved Partnership
A partnership which has discontinued
partnership business, or been dis
r.n4t ln,1
not partnership within the intent
and meaning of section 5. The indi
vidual members of such partnership
who may desire the benefits of the
Bankrupt Act may file separate indi-
vidual petitions, each scheduling the
late partnership debts, but they may
not file joint petitions.
Rule 6.-Meeting of Creditors.-AH
meetings of creditors held by and be-
fore the referee in voluntary cases,
showing only nominal or no assets,
may be held at the county seat OF the
referee, unless the party desiring 1t
to be held elsewhere, within the pro-
visions of the act, shall deposit with
the referee a sum sufficient to defray
the actual necessary expenses thereon
before the issue of the notice and order
for such meeting.
Rule adjudication of Notices.
The publication of notice of first meet
ing required by the act, and of other
notices. which may be directed by the
court. shall be made once in some
newspaper published or having gen
eraI circulation. in the county where
the bankrupt resided or transacted
business, provided the charges there
for do not exceed $3.50 III any ore
case having no visible assets available
for distribution to creditors.
Rule S.-Application for Discharge.
The appncation of the bankrupt for
discharge and the deposit of sufti-
Gent sum to cover the expenses or
postage and publication of notice OF
final meeting Tin case there be no es-
sets), shall be made before the ref
cree. who shall make the order to
show cause returnable before himself,
preside at the meeting. and at it's
close, or within three days thereafter,
forward to the judge his certificate of
proceedings and conformity, the ex-
ceptions to discharge, If any, and
blank certificate of discharge prepared
for signature if there be no eNcep-
tiCns. Exceptions to finolng OF rel
cree allowed under General Order 81
may be filed before the Judge within
ten DAYS or before the referee ana py
him forward.
This being general order OF refer
ence and duty not required by sta
tnte a fee of five dollars will be allow,
cd the referee for holding the final
meeting of creditors on application
for discharge.
Rule 9.-Designated Newspapers
Tn compliance with Section IS the
following newspapers are designated
i'm which bankrupt notices requiren'
and orders which the court may Ill
rect, shall be inserted:
First Division, North Carolina, at
Elizabeth City, n. c.
Second Division, Tarboro Southern
Ell. at Tarboro n. c.
Third Division, the Journal, at New
Rprn n C.