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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 43

[Order of Court for Recording Composition.] — In the District Court of the United States

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[Order of Court for Recording Composition.]

In the District Court of the United States,

For the____District of____ In the Matter of In Bankruptcy. Bankrupt.

At a stated term of the district court of the United States of America, for the____district of____held at the United States court rooms in the city of____, on the____day of____, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy____Present, the honorable____, district judge.

It appearing satisfactorily to the court, from the report of____, and from all the papers and proceedings herein, that an order was made herein on the____day of____A. D. 187____, whereby the clerk of this court was ordered to call a meeting of the creditors of said____, bankrupt, proposing a composition to____creditors, in accordance with section 17 of the Bankruptcy Amendment Act, approved June 22, 1874; that such meeting was called, and was held at said time; that said____bankrupt, was present at said meeting and answered all enquiries made of____and produced to said meeting a statement, verified by oath, showing____the whole of the assets and debts of said____bankrupt, and the names and addresses of the creditors to whom such debts respectively are due, in accordance with the requirements of said section 17; that the composition specified in the resolution hereto annexed was, at said meeting, proposed by said____, bankrupt; that the same was accepted by the passing, at said meeting, of said resolution, by a majority in number and three-fourths in value of the creditors of said____, bankrupt, assembled at said meeting, and was confirmed by the signatures thereto of the said____bankrupt, and of two-thirds in number and one-half in value of all the creditors of said bankrupt; that said resolution so passed and so confirmed, and said statement of assets and debts, were presented to this court; that on the____day of____A. D. 187____, an order was made herein, whereby the clerk of this court was ordered to call a meeting of the creditors of said ____, bankrupt, to be held on the____day of____A. D. 187____, for the purpose of said____enquiring, upon hearing, whether the said resolution accepting such composition was passed in the manner required by said section 17, and was confirmed by the signatures required by said section, and whether it is for the page 41 best interest of all concerned that the said resolution should be recorded, and that the said statement of assets and debts should be filed; that such last-mentioned meeting was held, as by said order required, on the____day of____A. D. 187____; that the said resolution was passed in the manner directed by said section 17, and has been confirmed by the signatures required by said section 17; and that it is for the best interest of all concerned that the said resolution accepting the composition proposed as aforesaid be recorded, and that the said statement showing the whole of the assets and debts of said____, bankrupt, be filed.

Now, therefore, it is ordered that the said resolution, accepting the composition proposed by said____, bankrupt, at a meeting of____creditors, held at the office of____on the,____day of____, A. D. 187____, be recorded, and that the said statement of assets and debts of said____bankrupt, produced by____to said last-mentioned meeting, be filed with the clerk of this court

Witness, the honorable____, judge of the said court, and the seal thereof, at the city of____[Seal.] in said district, on this____day of____, A. D. 187____Clerk.

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