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New York Debtor and Creditor Law Section 18 - Effect Of Orders; Power Of Judge And Duties Of Clerk.

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  § 18.  Effect of orders; power of judge and duties of clerk. All orders
  or decrees in proceedings under this article shall have the  same  force
  and  effect, and may be entered, docketed and enforced and appealed from
  the same as if made in an original action brought in the court in  which
  the  proceeding  is  pending;  provided,  however,  that a final decree,
  directing the payment of money, may be enforced by serving  a  certified
  copy  thereof personally upon the assignee for the benefit of creditors,
  and if said assignee wilfully neglects to obey said decree, by punishing
  him for a contempt of court.  The  imprisonment  of  said  assignee,  by
  virtue  of proceedings to punish him for contempt, as prescribed in this
  section, or a levy upon his property by virtue of an action,  shall  not
  bar,  suspend  or otherwise affect an action against the sureties on his
  final bond. All proceedings under this article shall be deemed to be had
  in court. The said court shall always be open for proceedings under this
  article.  The  judge,  when  named  in  this  article,  shall,  in  such
  proceedings, be deemed to be acting as the court. The clerk of the court
  shall keep a separate book, in which shall be entered, in each case, the
  date  and  place  of  record  of  the  assignment,  and  a minute of all
  proceedings therein, under this article, with such particularity as  the
  court  shall direct by general order. He shall record therein the orders
  and decrees of the court, settling, rejecting or adjusting  claims,  and
  directing the payment of money, or releasing assets by the assignee, and
  removing  or  discharging  the assignee and his sureties, and such other
  orders as the courts shall direct by general order. The said clerk shall
  securely keep the papers in each case in a file by themselves, and shall
  be entitled to a fee, except as otherwise provided by law, of one dollar
  for filing all the papers in each case, and entering the proceedings  in
  the  minute-book,  and  fifty  cents  to be paid by the assignee, unless
  otherwise directed, for recording each order or decree required by  this
  article or the general order of the court. The clerk shall not record at
  length  any  order  except  the  final  order in a proceeding under this
  article, unless directed to do so by the court.

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