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BANKRUPTCY.

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(3) No payment or composition made or security given after arrest made under this section shall be exempt from the provisions of this Ordinance relating to fraudulent preferences.

(4) At any time after a receiving order has been made, the Court form 24. may, if it thinks fit, issue a warrant for the seizure and detention of any books, papers, money, or goods in the debtor's possession.

of debtor's

25. Where a receiving order is made against a debtor, the Court, Re-direction on the application of the Official Receiver or trustee, may from time letters, etc. to time order that, for such time not exceeding 3 months as the [46 & 47 Vict. Court thinks fit, telegrams, post letters, and parcels addressed to

c. 52 s. 26.] the debtor at any specified place or places shall be re-directed, sent, form 27. or delivered by the agent of the telegraph company, or the Colonial Postmaster General or the officers acting under him, to the Official Receiver or the trustee or otherwise as the Court may direct, and the same shall be done accordingly.

property.

28. (1) The Court may, at any time after a receiving order has Discovery of been made against a debtor, summon before it the debtor or his wife debtor's or any person known or suspected to have in his possession any of [ib. s. 27.] the estate or effects belonging to the debtor or supposed to be indebted to the debtor, or any person whom the Court may deem capable of giving information respecting the debtor, his dealings, or property; and the Court may require any such person to produce any documents in his custody or power relating to the debtor, his dealings or property.

(2) If any person so summoned, after having been tendered a rea- sonable sum, refuses to come before the Court at the time appointed or refuses to produce any such document, having no lawful impedi- ment made known to the Court at the time of its sitting and allowed. by it, the Court may, by warrant, cause him to be apprehended and brought up for examination.

(3) The Court, by itself or by a commissioner appointed for the purpose, may examine upon oath, either by word of mouth or by written interrogatories, any person so brought before it concerning the debtor, his dealings or property.

(4) If any person, on examination, admits that he is indebted to the debtor, the Court may, on the application of the Official Receiver or trustee, order him to pay to the Receiver or trustee, at form 26. such time and in such manner as the Court may think proper, the

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