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CIVIL BILL COURT, IRELAND.

the return day, a copy of the Civil Bill, and of any notice, statement, or other document theretofore served on him by the defendant, or by him on the defendant in such suit.

6. The Clerk of the Peace shall enter on record in his book the name of only one person as solicitor for the plaintiff or for any defendant.

Order IX.

Clerks of the Peace and Registrars.

1. The Clerk of the Peace shall be the officer of the County Court in respect of all its civil jurisdiction, and for the discharge as well of the duties heretofore performed by or imposed on him, either by any Act of Parliament or by the existing practice of the Court or otherwise, as also in relation to all proceedings under the County Officers and Courts (Ireland) Act, 1877.[1]

2. There shall be kept in the office of the Clerk of the Peace a separate book, to be called the "Equity Civil Bill Book," in which shall be entered by the Clerk of the Peace or Registrar all Equity Civil Bills, statements of defence, set-off, and notices lodged in equity suits, and all decrees and orders, interlocutory or final, made in such suits; these books shall be accessible to the public on such days of the week and during such hours as shall be appointed by the Judge for each county, by an order under his hand, on payment of such fee for each search as may be prescribed; and the Clerk of the Peace and Registrar, respectively, shall also keep such other book or books as the Judge shall direct.

3. The Clerk of the Peace shall enter a number on the Civil Bill in each equity suit when delivered to him, and shall file in his office the Civil Bill and all other documents delivered to him in equity suits, and shall distinguish such documents by the number of the Civil Bill in respect of which they are filed, and from each other, by a distinctive letter of the alphabet.

4. The Clerk of the Peace shall lay before the Judge of the county, at the sitting of the Court on the first day of the sessions for hearing Civil Bills in each town, a duplicate copy of the Civil Bill Book for that sessions,

5. The Clerk of the Peace shall before each equity sessions make out a list for the Judge of all equity suits for hearing, and deliver or transmit the same to the Judge.

6. Each Clerk of the Peace or Registrar shall keep a separate Court book for equity suits, to be called the "Equity Minute Book," and shall at the hearing enter therein the names of the witnesses examined, and also the date and description of the documents used upon such hearing, and a minute of the orders

  1. ↑ 40 & 41 Vict. c. 56.
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