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ORDINANCE No. 30 or 1886 . 2059


Companies.


20. The accounts of the liquidator shall be left with the Registrar at the times Passing
accounts.
directed by the order appointing him, and at such other times as may from time to [Ibid, r. 19.]

time be required by the Judge, and such accounts shall, upon notice to such parties
(if any) as the Judge shall direct, be passed and verified in the same manner as
receivers' accounts .


Proof of debts.


21. For the purpose of ascertaining the debts and claims due from the company, Advertisement
for creditors.
and of requiring the creditors to come in and prove their debts or claims , an advertise [Ibid, r. 20.)
ment shall be issued, at such time as the Judge shall direct and such advertisement
shall fix a time for the creditors to send their names and addresses, and the particulars
of their debts or claims, and the names and addresses of their solicitors ( if any) , to
the official liquidator, and appoint a day for adjudicating thereon.

22. The creditors need not attend upon the adjudication, nor prove their debts Attendance of
creditors.
or claims, unless they are required to do so by notice from the official liquid.tor ; but [Ibid, r. 21.]

upon such notice being given , they are to come in and prove their debts or claims
within a time to be therein specified.

23. The official liquidator shall investigate the debts and claims sent in to him, List of debts.
[Ibid, r. 22.1
and ascertain, so far as he is able, which of such debts and claims 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
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. At the time appointed for adjudicating upon the debts and claims, or at any Allowance of
debts.
adjournment thereof, the Judge may either allow the debts and claims upon the [Ibid, r. 23.]
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 ; and 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 Proof of debts.
[Ibid, r. 24.]
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 advertise
ment, or by adjournment (as the case way be) for adjudicating upon such debts
and claims.