Section 278 - Bona fide payments to insolventIV. That if any person indebted to such insolvent, or having possession of any of his property, shall bona fide pay the said debt, or deliver the said property to the said insolvent, before public notice given by the said trustees, as herein provided, and without having had actual notice or knowledge of such petition or assignment, he shall not be liable to pay or deliver the same to such trustees.1836, June 16, P.L. 729, § 35.