Section 18. Effect of orders; power of judge and duties of clerk

All orders
  or  decrees  in proceedings under this article shall have the same force
  and effect, and may be entered, docketed and enforced and appealed  from
  the  same as if made in an original action brought in the court in which
  the proceeding is pending;  provided,  however,  that  a  final  decree,
  directing  the  payment of money, may be enforced by serving a certified
  copy thereof personally upon the assignee for the benefit of  creditors,
  and if said assignee wilfully neglects to obey said decree, by punishing
  him  for  a  contempt  of  court.  The imprisonment of said assignee, by
  virtue of proceedings to punish him for contempt, as prescribed in  this
  section,  or  a levy upon his property by virtue of an action, shall not
  bar, suspend or otherwise affect an action against the sureties  on  his
  final bond. All proceedings under this article shall be deemed to be had
  in court. The said court shall always be open for proceedings under this
  article.  The  judge,  when  named  in  this  article,  shall,  in  such
  proceedings, be deemed to be acting as the court. The clerk of the court
  shall keep a separate book, in which shall be entered, in each case, the
  date and place of  record  of  the  assignment,  and  a  minute  of  all
  proceedings  therein, under this article, with such particularity as the
  court shall direct by general order. He shall record therein the  orders
  and  decrees  of the court, settling, rejecting or adjusting claims, and
  directing the payment of money, or releasing assets by the assignee, and
  removing or discharging the assignee and his sureties,  and  such  other
  orders as the courts shall direct by general order. The said clerk shall
  securely keep the papers in each case in a file by themselves, and shall
  be entitled to a fee, except as otherwise provided by law, of one dollar
  for  filing all the papers in each case, and entering the proceedings in
  the minute-book, and fifty cents to be  paid  by  the  assignee,  unless
  otherwise  directed, for recording each order or decree required by this
  article or the general order of the court. The clerk shall not record at
  length any order except the final  order  in  a  proceeding  under  this
  article, unless directed to do so by the court.