HC Deb 04 August 1913 vol 56 cc1193-4

After a final division of the funds, the trustee shall call a meeting of the creditors, by an advertisement in the Gazette, to be held not sooner than fourteen days after such publication, specifying the time, place, and purpose of holding the meeting, and by letters addressed by post to every creditor who has produced an oath as aforesaid, to consider as to an application for his discharge, and at such meeting he shall lay before the creditors the sederunt book and accounts, with a list of unclaimed dividends, and the creditors may then declare their opinion of his conduct as trustee, and he may thereafter apply to the Lord Ordinary or the sheriff, who, on advising the petition, with the minutes of the meeting, and hearing any creditor may pronounce or refuse decree of exoneration and discharge; and an extract of such decree, signed by the clerk of the Bills or the sheriff clerk, shall forthwith be transmitted to the accountant, and shall be entered in the register of sequestrations, and the bond of caution for the trustee delivered up.

Amendments made: Leave out the words "discharge; and an extract of such decree, signed by."

Leave out the words "be transmitted to the accountant, and" and insert instead thereof the words "transmit to the accountant a signed extract of such decree, which."