Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac, Volume 30

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Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1915 - Almanacs, American

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Page 163 - Court; (3) examine the correctness of all proofs of claims filed against his estate; (4) execute and deliver such papers as shall be ordered by the Court; (5) execute to his trustee transfers of all his property in foreign countries; (6) immediately inform his trustee of any attempt, by his creditors or other persons, to evade the provisions of this Act, coming to his knowledge; (7) in case of any person having to his knowledge proved a false claim against his estate, disclose that fact immediately...
Page 163 - Any person except a municipal, railroad, insurance, or banking corporation, shall be entitled to the benefits of this act as a voluntary bankrupt.ii b Any natural person, except a wage-earner, or a person engaged chiefly in farming or the tillage of the soil, any unincorporated company, and any moneyed, business or commercial corporation, except a municipal, railroad, insurance, or banking...
Page 147 - Persons honorably discharged from the military or naval service by reason of disability resulting from wounds or sickness incurred in the line of duty, shall be preferred for appointments to civil offices, provided they are found to possess the business capacity necessary for the proper discharge of the duties of such offices.
Page 163 - ... or over, may be adjudged an involuntary bankrupt upon default or an impartial trial, and shall be subject to the provisions and entitled to the benefits of this act. Private bankers, bu.t not national banks or banks incorporated under State or Territorial laws, may be adjudged involuntary bankrupts.
Page 147 - Sixth, that no person in said service has any right to use his official authority or influence to coerce the political action of any person or body.
Page 122 - The fee on registered matter, domestic or foreign, is eight cents for each letter or parcel, to be affixed in stamps, in addition to the postage. Full prepayment of postage and fee is required. Two or more letters or parcels addressed to or Intended for, the same person cannot be tied or otherwise fastened together and registered as one.
Page 163 - ... when present at the first meetIng of his creditors, and at such other times as the court shall order, submit to an examination concerning the conducting of his business, the cause of his bankruptcy, his dealings with his creditors and other persons, the amount, kind and whereabouts of his property, and In addition, all matters which may affect the administration and settlement of his estate; but no testimony given by him shall be offered In evidence against him In any criminal proceedings.
Page 163 - ... a schedule of his property, showing the amount and kind of property, the location thereof, its money value in detail, and a list of his creditors, showing their residences, if known, if unknown, that fact to be stated...
Page 119 - English, the text of all copies accorded protection under this act, except as below provided, shall be printed from type set within the limits of the United States, either by hand or by the aid of any kind of typesetting machine, or from plates made within the limits of the United States...
Page 121 - ... calculated by the terms or manner or style of display and obviously intended to reflect injuriously upon the character or conduct of another...

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