Year: 1867

Courts OF the United states, within the
State of Tennessee, and the Clerks Of the
respective courts will enter the same upon
the minutes of the court, and furnish
| copy thereofto each of the Registers within
the district as soon as practicable after the
same shall have been 30 entered .es =


RULE LIN voluntary bankruptcy, the
petition shall be referred, by Form No. 4,
TO the Register in the congressional district
which embraces the county stated in the
petition as that wherein the debtor, whether
an individual, q eopartpership, a corpora
ton, or joint stock company, has resided
or carried on business for the six months
next Immediately preceding the time of
filing the petition, or for the longest period
during such six monahs. A petition may
be otherwise referred for special reasons,
or in cases not herein provided for.


The order, Form No 4, designating the
Register to act upon the petition in uolltn-
td7y bankruptcy, when the petition states
the residence or place of business of the
debtor 10 be in the county of Knox, Da-
wilson or Shelby, shall specify as the place
where the Register shall act upon the mat
tiers arising under the case, and the warrant,
Form No. SO, in involuntary bankruptcy,
shall, in like case, specify as the place
where the meeting of the creditors will be
| held, the office Of the Register as designa-
ted by him, by a writing filed with the
Clerk And in case of the residence or
place Of business of the debtor being in
any county other than that of Knox. Da-
wilson OF Shelby, the order, Form No. 4,
in voluntary bankruptcy, shall specify as
the place where the Register shall act upon
the matters arising under the case, an office
Of the Register, as designated By him in
like manner, in his district, which is the
place of residence of the petitioner, or the
| place Of business Of the co-partnership,
corporation, or Joint stock company, as set
forth in the petition; and in like case,
iG che warrant, Form No. So, in iaUOlaR.
taTy bankruptcy, the place for the meeting
| Of creditors will be designated with refer
ence to the special circumstances Of the
case


The day named in the order, Form No.
| 4, for the attendance of the bankrupt be-
fore the Register, in UOltatary bankruptcy.
and the dag named in the warrant, Form
/ No. SO, for the meeting Of creditors in IN
U0ilRtary bankruptcy, will be fixed with
reference to the convenient and speedy
progress of the case. a


Every Register shall, by writing filed
with the Clerk, designate the days on which
he win attend at place or places within
his district, other than the counties of
| Knox, Davidson and Shelby.
Every Register may, in any case referred
to him, fix the times when he will act upon
the several matters arising under each case,
| other than the attendance Of the bankrupt,
as fixed by the order Form No. 4, and the
meeting of creditors as fixed by the war
rant, Form No. So but the Register shall
not, without leave of the court, be at liberty
to change the place specified in the order,
Form No. 4, or to act upon the matters
arising under a case in involuntary bank
ruptcy at any other place than the one
specified in the warrant, Form No. 50, as
the place for the meeting of creditors.


RULE 2.-Wheneyer a petition is re-
ferred TO a Register in a voluntary case
and whenever, in an involuntary case, an
order is made on an adjudication of bank
ruptcy, referring the case to a Register, the
| Clerk, at the time be sends or delivers to
the Register copy of the order Of refer
ence shall pay to him the sum of twenty
dollars out Of the fifty deposited with the
Clerk under section forty seven Of the act,
the same TO be applied TO the payment of
such fees Of the Register as are chargeable
to the petitioner making the deposit.
Whenever, by a return Of the feesso charge
able for services rendered by him, it shall
appear that the aggregate amount Of such
fees exceeds the aggregate payment made
thereon TO the Register out of the fifty dol
lars, the Clerk shall, if required by the
Register, make further payments to him
thereon to the amount of such fees, until
the fifty dollars shall all of it be paid out,
aud thereafter the fees of the Register which
are chargeable to such petitioner, shall be
paid or received in like manner with the
other fees provided for by Rule 29 of the
General Orders in Bankruptcy


The foregoing provisions Of this rule
shall not apply to a case of voluntary
bankruptcy, where, under rule Sd of the
General Orders in Bankruptcy" the
Judge shall direct that the fees and costs
in the case shall not exceed the sum re-
quired by the act 10 be deposited with the
Clerk but in every such case, such of the
disbursements paid out by the Register and
Marshal for the purposes specified in rule
18th Of the General Orders in Bank
ruptcy," and returned by them under oath,
under said rule 18th, as are chargeable to
the petitioning debtor, shall be refunded to
them severally by the Clerk out of such
sum; and the Clerk, Marshal and Register
shall perform the duties required of them
by such petitioning debtor, without first
requiring payment or security for their
fees, subject to the application by the court
10 such fees, of so much of such sum as
shall remain after refunding such disburse-
ments.


RULE 3.-The Register shall, under rule
eth Of the General Orders in Bank
uptcy," examine the duplicate copy of the
petition and schedules specified in form
No. 4, and the certificate of the Register,
required by said rule Z, as to the correct
ness in form of the petition and schedules,
shall be made in writing, and be signed by
him on the duplicate copy which he so ex-
amined and he shall not issue any warrant
under form No. 6, until he shall have 80
made a certificate, after such examination,
that the petition and schedules are correct
in form.


RULE 4.-The warrant issued under sec
ton or section 42 Of the act, according
TO Form No. g. or Form No. So, shall spe-
city the newspapers in which the notices
shall be published, that is to say In the
district of East Tennessee, if a newspaper
is published in the county stated in the



petition as the one in which the debtor
has resided or carried on business for the
six months preceding the time Of fling
the petition, the notices required shall
be published twice in such newspaper
and once in the Free Press McsseageT
and Whig at Knoxville; bat if no news
paper is published in such county, then
said notices shall be published twice in
each of said papers at Knoxville.


la the district Of Middle Tennessee, if a
newspaper is published in the county Of
the debtors residence or place OF business
! the notices shall be published twice in such
newspaper. and once in the UNION AM
DESPATCH, Baaaer and Gazette, at Nash
vile; but if no newspaper Is published ia
such county, then said notices shall be pub


lished twice in each Of said papers at Nash
, Vile


In the district Of West Tennessee, if 8
newspaper is published in the county Of the


debtors residence or place Of business, the


notices shall be published twice in suel
| newspaper and onca IN the 4r4}auehf BaI