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 52 STAT.] 75TH CONG., 3D SESS.-CH. 575-JUNE 22, 1938 "j. Debts owing to the United States or any State or subdivision thereof as a penalty or forfeiture shall not be allowed, except for the amount of the pecuniary loss sustained by the act, transaction, or proceeding out of which the penalty or forfeiture arose, with reasonable and actual costs occasioned thereby and such interest as may have accrued thereon according to law. "k. Claims which have been allowed may be reconsidered for cause and reallowed or rejected in whole or in part according to the equities of the case, before but not after the estate has been closed. "1. Whenever a claim shall have been reconsidered and rejected, in whole or in part, upon which a dividend has been paid, the trustee may recover from the creditor the amount of the dividend received upon the claim if rejected in whole, or the proportional part thereof if rejected only in part, and the trustee may also recover any excess dividend paid to any creditor. The court shall have summary juris- diction of a proceeding by the trustee to recover any such dividends. "m. The claim of any estate which is being administered in bank- ruptcy against any like estate may be proved and filed by the receiver or trustee and allowed by the court in the same manner and upon like terms as the claims of other creditors. "n. Except as otherwise provided in this Act, all claims provable under this Act, including all claims of the United States and of any State or subdivision thereof, shall be proved and filed in the man- ner provided in this section. Claims which are not filed within six months after the first date set for the first meeting of creditors shall not be allowed: Provided, however, That the court may, upon appli- cation before the expiration of such period and for cause shown, grant a reasonable fixed extension of time for the filing of claims by the United States or any State or subdivision thereof: Provided further, That, except in proceedings under chapters X, XI, XII, and XIII of this Act, the right of infants and insane persons without guardians, without notice of the bankruptcy proceed- ings, may continue six months longer: And provided further, That a claim arising in favor of a person by reason of the recov- ery by the trustee from such person of money or property, or the avoidance by the trustee of a lien held by such person, may be filed within thirty days from the date of such recovery or avoidance, but if the recovery is by way of a proceeding in which a final judg- ment has been entered against such person, the claim shall not be allowed if the money is not paid or the property is not delivered to the trustee within thirty days from the date of the rendering of such final judgment, or within such further time as the court may allow. When in any case all claims which have been duly allowed have been paid in full, claims not filed within the time hereinabove prescribed may nevertheless be filed within such time as the court may fix or for cause shown extend and, if duly proved, shall be allowed against any surplus remaining in such case. "SEc. 58. NoTIcEs.- a . Creditors shall have at least ten days' notice by mail, to their respective addresses as they appear in the list of creditors of the bankrupt or as afterward filed with the papers in the case by the creditors, of (1) all examinations of the bankrupt, if the court so directs; (2) all hearings upon applica- tions for the confirmation of arrangements and wage-earner plans; (3) all meetings of creditors; (4) all proposed sales of property: Provided, That the court may, upon cause shown, shorten such time or order an immediate sale without notice, (5) the filing of all accounts of the receiver and trustee, for which confirmation is asked, and the time when they will be examined and passed upon; (6) the 867 Debts to United States, etc. Reconsideration of allowed claims. Reconsidered claims on which dividend has been paid, etc. Proceedings for re- covery. Claims of one bank- rupt estate against another. Proofof claims. Time limitation for filing. Provisos. Extensions. Infants, etc. Post, pp. 883, 905, 916, 930. Claims arising by reason of recovery, etc., by trustee. Notices. Creditors. Proisao Sales of property.

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