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creditors.
General Order, 1868, r. 10,
Affidavit as to claims received. Ib. r. 11.
Proceedings where claim not admitted. Ib. r. 12.
Costs of proof. Ib. r. 13.
Registrar's certificate as to creditors. Ib. r. 14.
No. 1. THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 1865.
(2.) The notice shall state the amount of the proposed reduction of capital, the places where the aforesaid list of creditors may be inspected, and the time within which creditors of the company who are not entered on the list, and are desirous of being entered therein, must send in their names and addresses, the particulars of their debts or claims, and the names and addresses of their solicitors, if any, to the solicitor of the company.
82. The company shall, within such time as the Judge may direct, file with the Registrar an affidavit made by the person to whom the particulars of debts or claims are, by such notices as are mentioned in Rules 80 and 81, required to be sent in stating the result of such notices respectively, and verifying a list containing the names and addresses of the persons, if any, who have sent in the particulars of their debts or claims in pursuance of such notices respectively and the amounts of such debts or claims, and some competent officer or officers of the company shall join in such affidavit, and shall in such list distinguish which, if any, of such debts and claims are wholly, or as to any and what part thereof, admitted by the company, and which, if any, of such debts and claims are wholly, or as to any and what part thereof, disputed by the company.
83. If any debt or claim, the particulars of which are so sent in, is not admitted by the company at its full amount, then and in every such case, unless the company is willing to set apart and appropriate in such manner as the Judge may direct the full amount of such debt or claim, the company shall, if the Judge thinks fit so to direct, send to the creditor a notice that he is required to come in and prove such debt or claim, or such part thereof as is not admitted by the company, by a day to be therein named, being not less than four clear days after such notice and being the time appointed by the Judge for adjudicating on such debts and claims, and such notice shall be sent in the manner mentioned in Rule 80.
84. Such creditors as come in to prove their debts or claims in pursuance of any such notice as is mentioned in the last preceding Rule shall be allowed their costs of proof against the company, and be answerable for costs, in the same manner as in the case of persons coming in to prove debts under a judgment or decree in a suit.
85. The result of the settlement of the list of creditors shall be stated in certificate by the Registrar, and such certificate shall state what debts or claims, if any, have been disallowed, and shall distinguish the debts or claims the full amount of which the company is willing to set apart and appropriate, the debts or claims, if any, the amount of which has been fixed by inquiry and adjudication in manner provided by section 63 of the Companies Ordinance, 1865, and the debts or claims, if any, the full amount of which is not admitted by the company, nor such as the company is willing to set apart and appropriate, and the amount of which has not been fixed by inquiry and adjudication as aforesaid, and shall show which of the creditors have consented in writing to the proposed reduction, the total amount of the debts due to