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ORDINANCE No. 5 of 1864.
Bankruptcy and Insolvency.
VII.
All office copies of petitions, proceedings, books, papers and writings, or any parts thereof, provided for any bankrupt, or for any debtor or creditor of a bankrupt, or attorney of any such bankrupt, debtor or creditor shall be charged and paid for at the rate of fifteen cents per folio of seventy-two words, and such copies shall be made forthwith after application for the same.
VIII.
In lieu of attaching a copy of the Hongkong Government Gazette to the proceedings in each bankruptcy or other matter, the Registrar shall make a memorandum of the advertisement in the Hongkong Government Gazette and of the date thereof with proper reference to the file to facilitate search; and one copy of every Hongkong Government Gazette and of each newspaper in which any notice in any matter of bankruptcy is inserted, shall be delivered to the Registrar who shall file the same.
IX.
No affidavit shall be filed unless it is properly intituled in the Court and matter in which the same is to be used; and after an affidavit is left with the Registrar to be filed, it is not to be delivered to any person whatever, except by order of the Court.
As to Petitions, &c.
X.
A petition for adjudication of bankruptcy may either be written or printed.
XI.
Upon every petition the Registrar or Deputy Registrar or, in the absence of both of these officers, the clerk of the Court shall note the precise time of the filing of such petition.
XII.
Before adjudication of bankruptcy upon any petition the petitioner shall state on oath, by affidavit, that the several allegations in the petition are true.
XIII.
No adjudication shall be made on the petition of a debtor for adjudication of bankruptcy against himself in the absence of the petitioner, unless the petitioner is in custody or his attendance be dispensed with by special Order of the Court.