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Show 168 INTERSTATE COMPACTS " (5) declare all such bonds due and payable, whether or not in advance of maturity, upon thirty days' prior notice in writing to the Commission and if all defaults shall be made good, then with the consent of the holders of twenty-five per centum (25%) of the principal amount of such bonds then outstanding, annul such declaration and its consequences. "(c) Before declaring the principal of all such bonds due and pay- able the statutory trustee shall first give thirty days' notice in writing to the Commission. "(d) Any such statutory trustee, whether or not the issue of bonds represented by such trustee has been declared due and payable, shall be entitled as of right to the appointment of a receiver of any part or parts of the property of the Commission the revenues derived from which property are pledged for the security of the bonds of such issue and such receiver may enter and take possession of such part or parts of such property and subject to any pledge or agreement with bond- holders shall take possession of all moneys and other property derived from or applicable to the construction, operation, maintenance and reconstruction of such part or parts of such property and proceed with any construction thereon which the Commission is under obli- gation to do and to operate, maintain and reconstruct such part or parts of the property and collect and receive all revenues thereafter arising therefrom subject to any pledge thereof or agreement with bondholders relating thereto, and perform the public duties and carry out the agreements and obligations of the Commission under the direc- tion of the court. In any suit, action or proceeding by the statutory trustee the fees, counsel fees and expenses of the said trustee and of the receiver, if any, shall constitute taxable disbursements and all costs and disbursements allowed by the court shall be a first charge on any revenues derived from such property. "(e) Such statutory trustee shall, in addition to the foregoing, have and possess all of the powers necessary or appropriate for the exercise of any function specifically set forth herein or incident to the general representation of bondholders in the enforcement and protection of their rights. "3. Notes issued in anticipation of bonds shall be paid from any moneys of the Commission available therefor and not otherwise pledged or from the proceeds of sale of the bonds of the Commission in anticipation of which they were issued. The notes shall be issued and sold in the same manner as the bonds and such notes and the reso- lution or resolutions authorizing the same may contain any provisions, conditions or limitations which the bonds or a bond resolution of the Commission may contain. Such notes shall be as fully negotiable as the bonds of the Commission. "4. Bonds issued by the Commission under the provisions of this compact are hereby made securities in which any signatory State and all political subdivisions thereof, their officers, boards, commissions, departments or other agencies, all banks, bankers, savings banks, trust companies, savings and loan associations, investment companies and other persons carrying on a banking business, all insurance companies, insurance associations, and other persons carrying on an insurance business, and all administrators, executors, guardians, trustees, com- |