Thus,  in  Pennsylvania,  by  statute  of  March  24th,  1818,
§  5,^  an  assignment  is  void  as  against  creditors,  unless  re-
corded within  thirty  days  *  after  its  execution,  in  the  county
where  the  debtor  resides.*  This  statute  has  been  held  to
extend  to  assignments  in  trust  for  payment  of  particular
creditors,  as  well  as  to  those  for  payment  of  alL^   It  has  been


*  Purdon'g  Digest  (Brightley,  10th  ed.),  vol.  I,  p.  90.
*  Where  the  assignee  named  in  a  deed  of  assignment  for  the  benefit  of  cred-
itors, declines  to  accept  the  trust,  and  in  his  stead  another  is  appointed,  the
thirty  days  allowed  by  the  act  within  which  to  record  the  deed  runs  from  its
date,  and  not  from  the  time  of  the  appointment  of  the  new  trostee.  Hence,  when
the  assignee  did  not  record  the  deed  of  assignment  until  after  thirty  days  from
its  execution,  it  was  as  to  creditors  null  and  void,  and  the  fund  in  the  hands  of
the  assignee  was  liable  to  attachment  by  them.  Johnson  v.  Herring,  46  Penn.
St.  416  ;  see  Lane's  Appeal,  82  Penn.  St.  289.
•'  Stewart  y.  McMinn,  5  W.  &  S.  100.  It  is  not  sufScient  that  the  deed  is
recorded  in  the  county  in  which  the  property  is  situated.  Schuylkill  Bank  ▼.
Reigart,  4  Barr,  477.
*  Euglebert  v.  Blanjot,  2  Whart.  240;  reyersing  the  judgment  in  1  Miles,  224;
Murphy's  Assignment,  2  Pitts.  R.  271.
