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 CXXXVIII CODIFICATION OF INTERNAL REVENUE LAWS such time as the court may fix, a bond or undertaking with such sureties, as may be approved by the court, or without sureties, as the court may order, and in such amount as the court may fix, to indemnify the estate against loss thereto or diminution thereof during the period of such stay. Upon the failure of the debtor to comply with such requirement the proceeding under this chapter shall be dismissed. ARTICLE V-PROCEEDINGS SBSEQUENT TO ITLING OF PETITION SEC. 631. The judge may refer the proceeding to a referee. SEC. 632. The judge or referee shall promptly call a meeting of creditors, upon at least ten days' notice by mail to the debtor and his creditors. SEO. 633. At such meeting, or at any adjournment thereof- (1) the judge or referee shall preside, receive proofs of claim, and allow or disallow them, and examine the debtor or cause him to be examined and hear witnesses on any matter relevant to the proceeding; (2) the debtor shall submit his plan, and deposit with the referee, if any, such sum, as the referee may require, not to exceed $15, as indemnity for the expenses of the referee; (3) the court shall receive and determine the written acceptances of creditors on the proposed plan, which acceptances may be obtained by the debtor before or after the filing of a petition under this chapter; (4) the court shall, if the plan is accepted, appoint a trustee to receive and distribute, subject to the control of the court, all moneys to be paid under the plan and shall require such trustee to give bond with surety to be approved by the court in such amount as the court shall fix; and (5) the court shall fix a time for the filing of the application to confirm the arrangement and for a hearing on the confirmation thereof or any objection to the confirmation, unless such times have already been named in the notice of the meeting or unless all creditors affected by the arrangement have accepted it. ARTICLE VI-BIGHTS, DUTIES, AND POWERS OF DEBTOR AND OFFICEBS SEa 636. Where not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, the powers and duties of the officers of the court and the rights, privileges, and duties of the debtor shall be the same, where a petition is filed under section 621 of this Act and a decree of adjudication has not been entered in the pending bankruptcy proceeding, as if a decree of adjudication had been entered in such bankruptcy proceeding at the time the petition under this chapter was filed, or where a petition is filed under section 622 of this Act, as if a voluntary petition for adjudication in bankruptcy had been filed and a decree of adjudication had been entered at the time the petition under this chapter was filed. SEC. 637. The allowance of exemptions to a debtor shall be the same as provided for a bankrupt under this Act, and such exemptions shall be set aside to the debtor in like manner as provided for a bankrupt. ARTICL VII-CREDITORS AND CLAIMS SEC. 641. Where not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, the rights, duties, and liabilities of creditors and of all other persons with respect to the property of the debtor shall be the same, where a petition Is filed under section 621 of this Act and a decree of adjudication has not been entered in the pending bankruptcy proceeding, as if a decree of adjudication had been entered in such bankruptcy proceeding at the time the petition under this chapter was filed, or, where a petition is filed under section 622 of this Act, as if a voluntary petition for adjudication in bankruptcy had been filed and a decree of adjudication had been entered at the time the petition under this chapter was filed. SEC. 642. In case an executory contract shall be rejected pursuant to the provisions of a plan or to the permission of the court given in a proceeding under this chapter, or shall have been rejected by a trustee or receiver in bankruptcy in a prior pending proceeding, any person injured by such rejection shall, for the purpose of this chapter and of the plan, its acceptance and confirmation, be deemed a creditor. The claim of the landlord for injury resulting from the rejection of an unexpired lease of real estate or for dam- ages or indemnity under a covenant contained in such lease shall be provable, but shall be limited to an amount not to exceed the rent, without acceleration, reserved by such lease for the year next succeeding the date of the surrender of the premises to the landlord or the date of reentry of the landlord, which- ever first occurs, whether before or after the filing of the petition, plus unpaid accrued rent, without acceleration up to the date of surrender or reentry:

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