N.Y. Debtor & Creditor Law § 167: Notice to debtors, bailees and creditors

§ 167. Notice to debtors, bailees and creditors. The trustees,

immediately upon their appointment, shall give notice thereof for at

least three weeks in a newspaper published in the county where

application was made and therein shall require:

1. All persons indebted to such debtor, by a day and at a place

therein to be specified, to render an account of all debts and sums of

money owing by them respectively, to such trustees, and to pay the same;

2. All persons having in their possession any property or effects of

such debtor, to deliver the same to the said trustees by the day so

appointed;

3. All the creditors of such debtor to deliver their respective

accounts and demands to the trustees or one of them, by a day to be

therein specified, not less than forty days from the first publication

of such notice.