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No such apbe made to

plication to

the Court except on appeal.

plication to

Sect. 15. The said Masters, on all applica- Costs of aptions made to them by virtue of this act, may the Masters. direct that the costs of all or any of the parties shall be costs in the cause or matter, or may award such liquidated sum by way of costs to any of the parties as they shall think reasonable, and the

into decrees take an office copy of so much only of any

or orders.

Clerk and

decree, order, report, or exceptions as he may require, and, unless the Court shall otherwise specially direct, no recitals shall be introduced into any decree or order, but the pleadings, petition, notice, report, affidavits, exhibits, or other matters or documents on which such decrees or orders shall be founded, shall merely be referred to; and the Lord Chancellor, with the Master of the Rolls and Vice Chancellor, or one of them, may make such rules and regulations as to the form of such decrees and orders as he may deem necessary for the proper drawing up of such decrees and orders, and carrying into effect the provisions of the Act in regard thereto.

Sect. 11. Clerk and assistant clerk of affiof affidavits. davits to be appointed.

assistant clerk

Patentee of subpœna office.

Master to hear all ap

time to plead,

&c.

Sect. 12. After the death, &c of the present patentee of the subpoena office, all the duties of such office to be performed by the clerk of the affidavits.

Sect. 13. The Master in ordinary of the High plications for Court of Chancery shall hear and determine all applications for time to plead, answer or demur, and for leave to amend bills, and for enlarging publication, and all such other matters relat

ing to the conduct of suits in the said Court as the Lord Chancellor, with the advice and assistance of the Master of the Rolls and Vice Chancellor, or one of them, shall by any general order or orders direct, in such manner and under such rules and regulations as by any general order or orders, to be also issued by the Lord Chancellor, with the advice and assistance aforesaid, shall be directed; and either party may appeal by motion from the order made on such application to the Lord Chancellor, Master of the Rolls or Vice Chancellor, and the order made on such appeal shall be final.

plication to

Sect. 14. No such application to be heard by No such apany of the judges of the said Court of Chan- be made to cery, except on appeal.

the Court except on

appeal.

plication to

Sect. 15. The said Masters, on all applica- Costs of aptions made to them by virtue of this act, may the Masters. direct that the costs of all or any of the parties shall be costs in the cause or matter, or may award such liquidated sum by way of costs to any of the parties as they shall think reasonable, and the costs so awarded shall be recoverable in like manner as costs directed to be paid by an order of the Court of Chancery (a).

(a) A party aggrieved by an order made by the Master under the above section in a cause set down at the Rolls, cannot appeal to the Lord Chancellor against the order.-Hill v. Gomme, 3 Myl. & Cr. 503.

Copy of

prayer of bill

with subpoena

&c.

of all subsequent process to be had thereon, upon any defendant or defendants in such suit then residing in such part of the said united kingdom or Isle of Man in which he, she, or they shall be so served, shall be deemed good service of, or be made, upon such defendant or defendants, upon such terms, and in such manner and at such time, as to such Courts respectively shall seem reasonable; and that thereupon it shall and may be lawful for such Courts respectively to proceed upon such service, so made as aforesaid, as fully and as effectually as if the same had been duly made within the jurisdiction of such Courts respectively.

S. 2. Similar powers given to Courts of Chancery and Exchequer in Ireland.

S. 3. Along with such subpoena or letter misto be served sive, served under any such order as aforesaid of the said Courts of Chancery and of Exchequer of England and Ireland respectively, a copy of the prayer of such complainant's bill to be served upon every such defendant; and no process of contempt to be entered upon any such proceedings as therein before mentioned, nor any decree made absolute in any of the said Courts in England or Ireland respectively, without the special order of such Court, upon special motion made for such purpose: but that nothing in

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