14. Every appointment of an official liquidator shall be advertized, in such manner as the judge shall direct, immediately after he has been appointed, and has given security (p).

(p) See form, No. 15, post.

15. Where it is desired to appoint provisionally an official liquidator (q), an application for that purpose may, at any time after the presentation of the petition for winding-up the company, be made by summons, without advertisement or notice to any person, unless the judge shall otherwise direct; and such provisional liquidator may, if the judge shall think fit, be appointed without security.

(q) See sects. 85, 92, ante, pp. 105, 109; Rule 59, Form No. 9, post.

16. In case of the death, removal or resignation of an official liquidator, another shall be appointed in his room, in the same manner as directed in the case of a first appointment, and the proceedings for that purpose may be taken by such party interested as may be authorized by the judge to take the

same.

17. The official liquidator shall, with all convenient speed after he is appointed, proceed to make up, continue, complete and rectify the books of account of the company; and shall provide and keep such books of account as shall be necessary, or as the judge may direct, for the purposes aforesaid, and for showing the debts and credits of the company, including a ledger which shall contain the separate accounts of the contributories, and in which every contributory shall be debited from time to time with the amount payable by him in respect of any call to be made as provided by the said act and these rules.

18. The official liquidator shall be allowed in his accounts, or otherwise paid, such salary or remuneration as the judge may from time to time direct, including any necessary employment of assistants or clerks by the official liquidator, to which regard

shall be had; and such salary or remuneration may either be fixed at the time of his appointment, or at any time thereafter, as the judge may think fit. Every allowance of such salary or remuneration, unless made at the time of his appointment, or upon passing an account, shall be made upon application for that purpose by the official liquidator, on notice to such persons (if any), and supported by such evidence as the judge shall require; nevertheless, the judge may from time to time allow any sum he may think fit to the official liquidator, on account of the salary or remuneration to be thereafter allowed.

19. The accounts of the official liquidator shall be left at the judge's chambers at the times directed by the order appointing him, and at such other times as may from time to 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 (r).

20. For the purpose of ascertaining the debts and claims due from the company, and of requiring the creditors to come in and prove their debts or claims, an advertisement 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(s).

(r) See sects. 107, 158, ante, pp. 156, 182.
(s) See Form of Advertisement, No. 16, post.

21. The creditors need not attend upon the adjudication, nor prove their debts or claims, unless they are required to do so by notice from the official liquidator; but upon such notice being given, they are to come in and prove their debts or claims within a time to be therein specified.

22. The official liquidator shall investigate the debts and claims sent in to him, 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 at the chambers of the judge, 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 by 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 (t).

(t) See form, Nos. 17, 18, post.

23. At the time appointed for adjudicating upon the debts and claims, or at any adjournment thereof, the judge may either allow the debts and claims upon the 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 (u).

(u) See form, No. 19, post.

24. The official liquidator shall give notice to the creditors whose debts or claims 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 advertisement, or by adjournment (as the case may be) for adjudicating upon such debts and claims (x).

(x) See forms, Nos. 20, 21, post.

25. The value of such debts and claims as are made admissible to proof by the 158th section of the said act (y), shall, so far as is possible, be estimated according to the value thereof at the date of the order to wind-up the company.

(y) Ante, p. 182.

26. Interest on such debts and claims as shall be allowed shall be computed, as to such of them as carry interest, after the rate they respectively carry; any creditor whose debt or claim so allowed does not carry interest shall be entitled to interest, after the rate of 4. per centum per annum, from the date of the order to wind-up the company, out of any assets which may remain after satisfying the costs of the winding-up, the debts and claims established, and the interest of such debts and claims as by law carry interest.

27. Such creditors as come in and prove their debts or claims pursuant to notice from the official liquidator shall be allowed their costs of proof, in the same manner as in the case of debts proved in a

cause.

28. The result of the adjudication upon debts and claims shall be stated in a certificate to be made by the chief clerk, and certificates as to any of such debts and claims may be made from time to time. All such certificates shall state whether the debts or claims are allowed or disallowed, and whether allowed as against any particular assets, or in any other qualified or special manner (z).

(z) See forms, Nos. 22, 23, post.

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORIES (a).

29. The official liquidator shall, with all convenient speed after his appointment, or at such time as the judge shall direct, make out and leave at the chambers of the judge a list of the contributories of the company; and such list shall be verified by the affidavit of the official liquidator, and shall, so far as is practicable, state the respective addresses

of, and the number of shares or extent of interest to be attributed to each such contributory, and distinguish the several classes of contributories. And such list may from time to time, by leave of the judge, be varied or added to, by the official liquidator b).

(a) See sects. 98, 99, ante, p. 114.

(b) See forms, Nos. 24, 25, 29, 30, 32, post.

30. Upon the list of contributories being left at the chambers of the judge, the official liquidator shall obtain an appointment for the judge to settle the same, and shall give notice in writing of such appointment to every person included in such list, and stating in what character, and for what number of shares or interest, such person is included in the list; and, in case any variation or addition to such list shall at any time be made by the official liquidator, a similar notice in writing shall be given to every person to whom such variation or addition applies. All such notices shall be served four clear days before the day appointed to settle such list, or such variation or addition (c).

(c) See forms, Nos. 26, 27, post.

31. The result of the settlement of the list of contributories shall be stated in a certificate by the chief clerk; and certificates may be made from time to time for the purpose of stating the result of such settlement down to any particular time, or as to any particular person, or stating any variation of the list (d).

(d) See form, No. 31, post.

SALES OF PROPERTY (e).

32. Any real or personal property belonging of the company may be sold with the approbation of the judge, in the same manner as in the case of a sale under a decree or order of the court in a suit, or, if the judge shall so direct, by the official liquidator; and upon any such sale by the official liqui