ORDER OF COURT.

Friday, the 16th day of May, 1862.

THE Right Honorable RICHARD Baron WESTBURY, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, by and with the advice and assistance of the Right Honorable Sir JOHN ROMILLY, Master of the Rolls, The Honorable the Vice-Chancellor Sir RICHARD TORIN KINDERSLEY, The Honorable the Vice-Chancellor Sir JOHN STUART, and the Honorable the Vice-Chancellor Sir WILLIAM PAGE WOOD, Doth hereby, in pursuance and execution of the powers given by the Statute 15th and 16th Victoria, chapter 86, and of all other powers and authorities enabling him in that behalf, Order and direct in manner following:

I.

All affidavits and depositions which are to be used on the hearing of any cause in which issue shall be joined, or a notice of motion for a decree served after the eighteenth day of June, One thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, shall be printed except as hereinafter mentioned.

II.

Such affidavits and depositions shall be printed under the direction and superintendence of the Clerks of Records and Writs, upon paper of such kind and dimensions and with such type as are prescribed by the General Order for the printing of Bills, and in all other respects in such form and manner as the Clerks of Records and Writs shall deem to be most convenient, and the expense of such printing shall be paid out of the same fund and in like manner as the expense of making office copies is now paid.

III.

Solicitors and parties on filing affidavits hereby required to be printed, are to leave with the Clerks of Records and Writs a fair copy of each affidavit filed, such copy to be written on draft paper, on one side only, and to be certified by the solicitor or party to be a correct copy of the affidavit filed.

IV.

In a cause in which issue is joined, the Clerks of Records and Writs shall, upon the application of any party to the suit, cause such affidavits and depositions (other than depositions taken on the oral cross-examination of witnesses who have made such affidavits) to be printed after the expiration of the time fixed for closing the evidence. And such last mentioned depositions after the expiration of the time allowed for the oral cross-examination of such witnesses.

V.

In a cause in which a notice of motion for a decree is served, the Clerks of Records and Writs shall, upon the application of any party to the suit, cause the affidavits filed on behalf of the plaintiffs, the affidavits filed on behalf of the defendants, and the affidavits of the plaintiffs in reply, to be printed after the times respectively allowed for filing each set of such affidavits, and the depositions taken on the oral cross-examination of the witnesses who have made such affidavits after such depositions shall have been filed.

VI.

Every party who files an affidavit or causes depositions to be taken, is to take from the Clerks of Records and Writs a printed copy of every affidavit filed by him, and of all such depositions, for which he is to pay in stamps at the rate of twopence per folio, and unless such copy is taken, he is not to be allowed anything in the taxation of costs in respect of such affidavit or depositions.

VII.

All parties are to be at liberty to take from the Clerks of Records and Writs as many other printed copies of their own and of their opponents' affidavits and depositions as they may require, on paying for the same in stamps at the rate of one penny per folio.

VIII.

Solicitors are to be allowed, on the taxation of costs, the

same fees for printed copies of the affidavits and depositions used for the Briefs of Counsel as Solicitors are now allowed for written copies; and in country agency causes they are also to be allowed at the rate of fourpence per folio for one other printed copy of the affidavits and depositions of the opposite party, but for all other printed copies which may be necessarily used in the progress of the cause, Solicitors are to be allowed only the sums actually paid for the

same.

IX.

Affidavits and depositions which shall have been filed for the purpose of any interlocutory application, and of which office copies shall have been taken for that purpose, are excepted from the operation of this Order.

WESTBURY, C.

JOHN ROMILLY, M. R.

RICHD. T. KINDERSLEY, V. C.

JOHN STUART, V. C.

W. P. WOOD, V. C.