The statute provides for voluntary bankruptcy, and also for involuntary bankruptcy. By the eleventh section, "any person residing within the jurisdiction of the United States, and owing debts provable under this act, exceeding the amount of three hundred dollars " may, in the manner prescribed, become and be declared a bankrupt (c)

(c) Section 11th is as follows: If any person residing within the jurisdiction of the United States, owing debts provable under this act, exceeding the amount of three hundred dollars, shall apply, by petition addressed to the judge of the judia composition on a joint and several debt from the joint debtors is not a satisfaction of a separate liability of one of the joint debtors, Simpson v. Henning, L. R. 10 Q. B. 406; Megrath v. Gray, L. R. 9 C. P. 216; nor does a creditor by consenting to a composition release a surety for the same debt, Guild v. Butler, 122 "Mass. 498. - K.

It will be seen by the section, in our note, that many details are prescribed. Some questions have already arisen as to these, and have passed under adjudication. Perhaps the most important of them is as to where the petition should be filed under the phrase "carried on business." Thus, where a citizen of Massachusetts acquired a domicil in California, but left that State without the purpose of .returning, went to Europe, and, after some months, returned to Massachusetts and there filed his petition, - it was held that his first domicil had been renewed, and the petition was properly filed in Massachusetts, (d) Where one cial district in which such debtor has resided or carried on business for the six months next immediately preceding the time of filing such petition, or for the longest period during such six months, setting forth his place of residence, his inability to pay all his debts in full, his willingness to surrender all his estate and effects for the benefit of his creditors, and his desire to obtain the benefit of this act; and shall annex to his petition a schedule, verified by oath, before the court or before a register in bankruptcy, or before one of the commissioners of the Circuit Court of the United States, containing a full and true statement of all his debts, and, as far as possible, to whom due, with the place of residence of each creditor, if known to the debtor, and if not known, the fact to be so stated, and the sum due to each creditor; also, the nature of each debt or demand, whether founded on written security, obligation, contract, or otherwise, and also the true cause and consideration of such indebtedness in each case, and the place where such indebtedness accrued, and a statement of any existing mortgage, pledge, lien, judgment, or collateral or other security given for the payment of the same; and shall also annex to his petition an accurate inventory, verified in like manner, of all his estate, both real and personal, assignable under this act, describing the same, and stating where it is situated, and whether there are any, and if so, what incumbrances thereon; the filing of such petition shall be an act of bankruptcy, and such petitioner shall be adjudged a bankrupt: Provided, that all citizens of the United States petitioning to be declared bankrupt shall, on filing such petition, and before any proceedings thereon, take and subscribe an oath of allegiance and fidelity to the United States, which oath shall' be filed and recorded with the proceedings in bankruptcy The judge of the district court, or, if there be no opposing party, any register of said court, to be designated by the judge, shall forthwith, if he be satisfied that the debts due from the petitioner exceed three hundred dollars, issue a warrant, to be signed by such judge or register, directed to the marshal of said district, authorizing him forthwith, as messenger, to publish notices in such newspapers as the warrant specifies; to serve written or printed notice, by mail or "personally, on all creditors upon the schedule filed with the debtor's petition, or whose names may be given to him in addition by the debtor, and to give such personal or other notice to any persons concerned as the warrant specifies, which notice shall state: 1. That a warrant in bankruptcy has been issued against the estate of the debtor.

2. That the payment of any debts, and the delivery of any property belonging to such debtor, to him or for his use, and the transfer of any property by him, are forbidden by law.

3. That a meeting of the creditors of the debtor, giving the names, residences, and amounts, so far as known, to prove their debts and choose one or more assignees of his estate, will be held at a court of bankruptcy, to be holden at a time and place designated in the warrant, not less than ten nor more than ninety days after the issuing of the same who had been in business in Chicago, afterwards lived with his father in New Jersey, but was employed as a book-keeper in New York City for more than a year, it was held that the Court for the Southern District of New York bad no jurisdiction of his petition, (e) Nor of one where the petitioner, living in New Jersey, and being there one of a firm engaged in manufacturing, had an office in the city of New York, where he attended to his correspondence, and in some respects' to the business of the firm. (f) Nor can the court of a district within which a petition is filed by copartners, decree a partner to be a bankrupt, who has neither residence nor place of business in that district (g) But where a petitioner bought and sold in New York City for his brother, whose name was on the petitioner's office, the petition was held to be rightly filed in New York. (h) "All his debts " includes those bound by the statute of limitations in his domicil. (i)

At the meeting held in pursuance of the notice, one of the registers of the court shall preside, and the messenger shall make return of the warrant and of his doing thereon; and if it appears that the notice to the creditors has not been given as required in the warrant, the meeting shall forthwith be adjourned, and a new notice given as required. If the debtor dies after the issuing of the warrant, the proceedings may be continued and concluded in like manner as if he had lived.