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13. If a receiving order is made against one partner of a firm, any creditor to whom that partner is indebt- ed jointly with the other partners of the firm, or any of them, may prove his debt for the purpose of voting at any meeting of creditors, and shall be entitled to vote thereat.
14. The chairman of a meeting shall have power to admit or reject a proof for the purpose of voting, but his decision shall be subject to appeal to the court. If he is in doubt whether the proof of a creditor should be admitted or rejected he shall mark the proof as objected to and shall allow the creditor to vote, subject to the vote being declared invalid in the event of the objection being sustained.
15. A creditor may vote either in person or b proxy.
16. Every instrument of proxy shall be in the pres- cribed form, and shall be issued by the Official Receiver, or, after the appointment of a trustee, by the trustee, and every insertion therein shall be in the handwriting of the person giving the proxy, or of any manager or clerk, or other person in his regular employment, or of any commissioner to administer oaths in the Supreme Court, or of the Official Receiver.
17. General and special forms of proxy shall be sent to the creditors, together with a notice summon- ing a meeting of creditors, and neither the name nor the description of the Official Receiver, or of any other person, shall be printed or inserted in the body of any instrument of proxy before it is so sent.
18. A creditor may give a general proxy to his manager or clerk, or any other person in his regular employment or to his solicitor or solicitors. In such case the instrument of proxy shall state the relation in which the person to act thereunder stands to the creditor.
19. A creditor may give a special proxy to any per- son to vote at any specified meeting or adjournment thereof on all or any of the following matters:---
(a) for or against any specific proposal for a com-
position or scheme of arrangement;
(b) for or against the appointment of any speci- fied person as trustee, or as member of the committee of inspection, or for or against the continuance in office of any specified person as trustee or member of a committee of inspection;
(c) on all questions relating to any matter other than those above referred to, arising at any specified meeting or adjournment thereof.
20. A proxy shall not be used unless it is deposited with the Official Receiver or trustee twenty-four hours before the meeting at which it is to be used.
21. Where it appears to the satisfaction of the court that any solicitation has been used by or on behalf of a trustee or receiver in obtaining proxies, or in procur- ing the trusteeship or receivership, except by the direction of a meeting of creditors, the court shall have power, if it thinks fit, to order that no remunera- tion shall be allowed to the person by whom or on whose behalf such solicitation may have been exercis- ed, notwithstanding any resolution of the committee of inspection or of the creditors to the contrary.
22. A creditor may appoint the Official Receiver to act in manner prescribed as his general or special
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