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making of list of debts. General Orders, 1862, r. 22.
Allowance of debts. Ib. r. 23.
Proof of debts. Ib. r. 24.
Date of valuation of debts. Ib. r. 25.
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are, justly due from the company, and he shall make out and leave with the Registrar a list of all the debts and claims sent in to him, distinguishing which of the debts and claims, or parts of debts and claims, so claimed are, in his opinion, justly due and proper to be allowed without further evidence, and which of them, in his opinion, ought to be proved by the creditors, and he shall make and file, prior to the time appointed for adjudication, an affidavit setting forth which of the debts and claims in his opinion are justly due and proper to be allowed without further evidence, and stating his belief that such debts and claims are justly due and proper to be allowed, and the reasons for such belief.
24.-(1.) At the time appointed for adjudicating on the debts and claims, or at any adjournment thereof, the Judge may either allow the debts and claims on the affidavit of the official liquidator, or may require the same, or any of them, to be proved by the claimants, and adjourn the adjudication thereon to a time to be then fixed.
(2.) The official liquidator shall give notice to the creditors whose debts or claims have been so allowed of such allowance.
25. The official liquidator shall give notice to the creditors whose debts or claims have not been allowed upon his affidavit that they are required to come in and prove the same by a day to be therein named, being not less than four days after such notice, and to attend at a time to be therein named, being the time appointed by the advertisement or by adjournment, as the case may be, for adjudicating on such debts and claims.
26. The value of such debts and claims as are made admissible to proof by section 198 of the Companies Ordinance, 1865, shall, so far as is possible, be estimated according to the value thereof at the date of the order to wind up the company.
Interest on debts. Ib. r. 26.
Costs of proof. Ib. r. 27.
Registrar's certificate of debts. Ib. r. 28.
27.-(1.) Interest on such debts and claims as may be allowed shall be computed, as to such of them as carry interest, after the rate they respectively carry.
(2.) Any creditor whose debt or claim so allowed does not carry interest shall be entitled to interest, at such rate per cent. per annum as may from time to time be allowed by the Court or a Judge, from the date of the order to wind up the company, out of any assets which may remain after satisfying the costs of the winding-up, the debts and claims established, and the interest of such debts and claims as by law carry interest.
28. Such creditors as come in and prove their debts or claims pursuant to notice from the official liquidator shall be allowed their costs of proof, in the same manner as in the case of debts proved in a suit.
29.-(1.) The result of the adjudication on debts and claims shall be stated in a certificate to be made by the Registrar, and certificates as to any of such debts and claims may be made from time to time.
(2.) All such certificates shall state whether the debts or claims are allowed
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