§ To entitle any creditor to payment of the first dividend, he shall produce as is 1187 hereinbefore directed his oath and grounds of debt at least two months before the time fixed for payment of the first dividend, when such time of payment shall not have been accelerated, or one month before the time fixed for payment of the first dividend where such time shall have been accelerated; and to entitle any creditor to payment of any of the subsequent dividends, he shall produce as aforesaid his oath and grounds of debt at least one month before the time fixed for payment of the dividend which he means to claim; provided that if a creditor has not produced his oath and grounds of debt in time to share in the first dividend, but has done so in time to share in the second dividend, he shall be entitled, on occasion of payment of the second dividend, to receive out of the first of the fund (if there be sufficient for that purpose) an equalising dividend corresponding to the dividend he would have drawn if he had claimed in time for the first dividend; and the same rule shall apply as to all subsequent dividends.
§ Amendment made: Leave out the words "one month" ["one month before the time fixed"], and insert instead thereof the words "two months."