Every debtor who shall be discharged under the third or fourth articles of this chapter shall be allowed the sum of five per centum on the net produce of all his estate, that shall be received by the assignees, to be paid to him by them, in case such net produce, after such allowance made, shall be sufficient to pay the creditors of such debtor, entitled to a dividend, the sum of seventy cents on the dollar, on the amount of their debts respectively, as the same shall have been ascertained; but the said allowance shall not exceed in the whole, the sum of five hundred dollars.
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