Execution Act 1844

III Forthwith after filing of Petition a Notice to be given to Creditors and advertised in the Gazette, &c., and a public Sitting of the Court appointed for first Examination of Petitioner and Choice of Creditors Assignee. Commissioner may reject or remove the Person so chosen.

And be it enacted, That the Commissioner authorized to act in the Matter of such Petition shall forthwith, after such Petition shall have been filed, cause Notice of the filing of such Petition to be given, in such Manner as the Commissioner shall direct, to the Creditors named in the Schedule of the Petitioner, and resident within the United Kingdom, and whose Debts respectively shall amount to the Sum of Five Pounds, and to be inserted in the London Gazette and in some Newspaper or Newspapers circulating within the County wherein the Petitioner shall reside, and shall thereby appoint a public Sitting of the Court whenever the Commissioner shall think fit for the first Examination of the Petitioner; and the Commissioner may adjourn such Sitting from Time to Time, and allow the Petitioner to amend his Schedule and correct any Mis-statement therein, at the Discretion of the Commissioner, and the Choice of the Creditors Assignee shall take place at such Sitting, or any Adjournment thereof, and shall be made by the Majority in Number and Value of the Creditors who may attend, by themselves or their Attornies duly authorized by Letters of Attorney in that Behalf, before the Commissioner on such Day; provided that the Commissioner shall have Power to reject any Person so chosen who shall appear to him unfit to be such Assignee as aforesaid, or to remove any Assignee; and upon such Rejection or Removal a new Choice of another Assignee shall be made in like Manner.