BANKRUPTCY ACT REVISION

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON

CIVIL AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

NINETY-FOURTH CONGRESS

FIRST AND SECOND SESSIONS

ON

H.R. 31 and H.R. 32

BANKRUPTCY ACT REVISION

Supplemental Appendix
Part 1

Serial No. 27

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COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY

PETER W. RODINO, JR., New Jersey, Chairman

JACK BROOKS, Texas
ROBERT W. KASTENMEIER, Wisconsin
DON EDWARDS, California
WILLIAM L. HUNGATE, Missouri
JOHN CONYERS, JR., Michigan
JOSHUA EILBERG, Pennsylvania
WALTER FLOWERS, Alabama
JAMES R. MANN, South Carolina
PAUL S. SARBANES, Maryland
JOHN F. SEIBERLING, Ohio
GEORGE E. DANIELSON, California
ROBERT F. DRINAN, Massachusetts
BARBARA JORDAN, Texas
RAY THORNTON, Arkansas
ELIZABETH HOLTZMAN, New York
EDWARD MEZVINSKY, Iowa
HERMAN BADILLO, New York
ROMANO L. MAZZOLI, Kentucky
EDWARD W. PATTISON, New York
CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, Connecticut
WILLIAM J. HUGHES, New Jersey
MARTIN A. RUSSO, Illinois

EDWARD HUTCHINSON, Michigan
ROBERT MCCLORY, Illinois
TOM RAILSBACK, Illinois
CHARLES E. WIGGINS, California
HAMILTON FISH, JR., New York
M. CALDWELL BUTLER, Virginia
WILLIAM S. COHEN, Maine
CARLOS J. MOORHEAD, California
JOHN M. ASHBROOK, Ohio
HENRY J. HYDE, Illinois
THOMAS N. KINDNESS, Ohio

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART 1

Act of April 4, 1800, an act to establish a uniform System of Bankruptcy

throughout the United States. (6th Cong.)-----

Page

1

Act of February 13, 1801, an act to provide for the more convenient orga-

nization of the courts of the United States. (6th Cong.) -

Act of April 29, 1802, an act to amend the judicial system of the United

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States. (7th Cong.)

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Act of December 19, 1803, an act to repeal an act, entitled "An act to

establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States."

(8th Cong.).

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Act of August 19, 1841, an act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy

in the United States. (a) (27th Cong.)

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Act of March 3, 1843, an act to repeal the Bankrupt Act. (27th Cong.)..-

Act of March 2, 1967, an act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy

throughout the United States. (39th Cong.).

Act of July 27, 1868, an act in amendment of an act entitled: "An act to

establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States,"

approved March 2, 1867. (40th Cong.) -

Act of June 8, 1872, an act to amend an act entitled "An act to establish

a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States." (42d

Cong.)..

Act of June 8, 1872, an act to declare the true intent and meaning of

section 2 of an act entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of

bankruptcy throughout the United States," approved March 2, 1867.

(42d Cong.)...

Act of February 13, 1873, an act to amend an act entitled "An act to

establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the United States,"

approved March 2, 1867. (42d Cong.).

Act of March 3, 1873, an act to declare the true intent and meaning of the

act approved June 8, 1872, amendatory of the general bankrupt law.

(42d Cong.).

Act of June 22, 1874, an act to amend and supplement an act entitled

"An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the

United States," approved March 2, 1867, and for other purposes. (43d

Cong.).

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Act of June 7, 1878, an act to repeal the bankrupt law. (45th Cong.).....

Act of July 1, 1898, an act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy

throughout the United States. (Public Law No. 171, 55th Cong.)....

Act of February 5, 1903, an act to amend an act entitled "An Act to Es-

tablish a Uniform System of Bankruptcy Through the United States,"

(Public Law No. 62, 57th Cong.)

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House Report No. 1698, April 21, 1902.

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Act of June 15, 1906, an act to amend section 64 of the Bankruptcy Act

(Public Law No. 232, 59th Cong.).

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House Report No. 2753, March 30, 1906-

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Act of June 25, 1910, an act to amend the Bankruptcy Act of 1898 (Public

Law No. 294, 61st Cong.)

197

House Report No. 511, February 22, 1910--

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Senate Report No. 691, May 16, 1910-----

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Act of January 28, 1915 (extract from), bankruptcy proceedings and final-

ity of decrees, circuit courts of appeals. (Public Law No. 241, 63d Cong.)-