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that the notice of any meeting of creditors or sitting of the Court has been duly posted, shall be sufficient evidence of such notice having been duly sent to the person to whom the same was addressed. The certificate and the affidavit shall be in the forms Nos, 84A, 102, or 102A, in the Appendix, with such variations as circumstances may require.

Joint and Separate Estutes.

Acceptance of composition, &c. by joint and separate creditors. [266.]

61. The joint creditors, and each set of separate creditors, may severally accept compositions or schemes of arrangement. So far as circumstances will allow, a proposal accepted by joint creditors may be approved in the prescribed manner, not- withstanding that the proposals or proposal of some or one of the debtors made to their or his separate creditors may not be accepted.

Discharge of receiving order. [267A.]

62. Rule 267 of the Bankruptcy Rules, 1886, shall be read as if the word "discharged" were inserted therein in place of the word rescinded.

Small Bankruptcies.

Summary administration. [273.]

63. Where an estate is ordered to be administered in a summary manner, under section 121 of the Act of 1883, the provisions of the Acts and Rules shall, subject to any special direction of the Court, be modified as follows, namely:-

(1.) There shall be no advertisement of any proceedings in a local paper unless the Board of Trade otherwise direct.

(2.) The title of every document in the proceedings sub. sequent to the making of the order for summary administration shall have inserted thereon the words "Summary Case."

(3.) All questions of law and fact shall be determined by the Court having jurisdiction in the matter, and no ap- plication for a jury shall be entertained.

(4.) If no proposal for a composition or scheme is lodged with the Official Receiver within the time specified for that purpose in section 3 of the Act of 1890, or within such time thereafter as the Official Receiver may fix, or if the Official Receiver satisfies the Court that the debtor has absconded, or that the debtor does not intend to propose a composition or scheme, or that the composition or scheme proposed is not reasonable or calculated to benefit the general body of creditors, the Court may forthwith adjudge the debtor bankrupt. A report by the Official Receiver under this paragraph shall be prima facie evidence of the facts stated therein.

(5.) If during or at the conclusion of the public examination of the debtor it appears to the Court that a composition or scheme ought not to be sanctioned by reason of the conduct of the debtor, the Court may forthwith adjudge the debtor bankrupt.