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SECRETARIAL PRACTICE 
(3) Any person claiming to be entitled to any money paid into 
the Bank of England in pursuance of this section may apply to the 
Board of Trade for payment thereof, and the Board may, on a 
certificate by the liquidator that the person claiming is entitled, 
make an order for the payment to that person of the sum due. 
(4) Any person dissatisfied with the decision of the Board of 
Trade in respect of a claim made in pursuance of this section may 
appeal to the High Court. 
Unclaimed assets 286. When a company registered in Scotland has been wound 
a Go be up, and is about to be dissolved, the liquidator shall lodge in a joint 
panies Liquida- Stock bank of issue in Scotland (not being a bank in or of which the 
ton Account. Jjquidator is acting partner, manager, agent or cashier) in the name 
of the Accountant of Court the whole unclaimed dividends and 
unapplied or undistributable balances, and the deposit receipts 
therefore shall be transmitted to the Accountant of Court, and the 
provisions of section one hundred and fifty-three of the Bankruptcy 
(Scotland) Act, 1913, so far as consistent with this Act, shall, with 
any necessary modifications, apply to sums lodged in a bank in 
pursuance of this section in like manner as they apply to sums 
deposited in pursuance of that enactment. 
Resolutions 287. Where after the commencement of this Act a resolution is 
De a nes passed at an adjourned meeting of any creditors or contributories of 
of creditors and a company, the resolution shall, for all purposes, be treated as having 
contributories. heen passed on the date on which it was in fact passed, and shall not 
be deemed to have been passed on anv earlier date. 
Supplementary Powers of Court. 
Meetings to as- ~~. 288.—(1) The court may, as to all matters relating to the winding 
en nishes of up of a company, have regard to the wishes of the creditors or 
contributories. contributories of the company, as proved to it by any sufficient 
evidence, and may, if it thinks fit, for the purpose of ascertaining those 
wishes, direct meetings of the creditors or contributories to be called, 
held, and conducted in such manner as the court directs, and may 
appoint a person to act as chairman of any such meeting and to 
report the result thereof to the court. 
(2) In the case of creditors, regard shall be had to the value of 
each creditor’s debt. 
(3) In the case of contributories, regard shall be had to the 
number of votes conferred on each contributory by this Act or the 
articles. 
Judicial notice 
of signature 
of officers. 
289. In all proceedings under this Part of this Act, all courts, 
judges, and persons judicially acting, and all officers, judicial or 
ministerial, of any court, or employed in enforcing the process of any 
court, shall take judicial notice of the signature of any officer of the 
High Court or of a county court in England, or of the Court of 
Session or of a sheriff court in Scotland. or of the High Court in