Section 18
SEC. 18. Upon receiving and filing said petition, schedule, and inventory, the court, or the judge thereof in vacation, shall make an order declaring the petitioner insolvent, and directing the sheriff of the province or city in which the petition is filed to take possession of, and safely keep, until the appointment of a receiver or assignee, all the deeds, vouchers, books of account, papers, notes, bonds, bills, and securities of the debtor, and all his real and personal property, estate, and effects, except such as may be by law exempt from execution. Said order shall further forbid the payment to the debtor of any debts due to him and the delivery to the debtor, or to any person for him, of any property belonging to him, and the transfer of any property by him, and shall further appoint a time and place for a meeting of the creditors to choose an assignee of the estate. Said order shall designate a newspaper of general circulation published in the province or city in which the petition is filed, if there be one and if there be none, in a newspaper which, in the opinion of the judge, will best give notice to the creditors of the said insolvent, and in the newspaper so designated said order shall be published as often as may be prescribed by the court or the judge thereof. The time appointed for the election of an assignee shall not be less than two, nor more Civil proceedings, than eight, weeks from the date of the order of adjudication. Upon the granting of said order all civil proceedings pending against the said insolvent shall be staved. "When a receiver is appointed, or an assignee chosen, as provided in this Act, the sheriff shall there upon deliver to such receiver or assignee, as the case may be, all the property, assets, and belongings of the insolvent which have come into his possession, and he shall be allowed and paid as compensation for his services the same expenses and fees as would by law be collectible if the property had been levied upon and safely kept under attachment.