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Hours for Service.

Sundays and holy days.

Bail.

Discretion of Court.

Becurity for

costs.

Pauper plaintiff or defend. nt.

Counsel or attorneyfor

pauper.

Pauper dis

paupered for giving fee;

or for insufficient poverty,

Days.

Sundays and

holy days, when not reckoned

RULES OF SUPREME COURT

259. Service of a document not required to le served personally must be made before five o'clock in the evening.

If made after that hour on any day but Saturday, it shall be con. sidered as made on the following day.

If made after that hour on Saturday, it shall be considered as made on the following Monday.

260. No service in a civil suit shall be made on Sundays, Christmas Day, or Good Friday.

Absconding Defendant

261. Where the Court is satisfied by evidence on oath that there is good reason to believe that a defendant means to abscond in order to avoid the process of the Court, after suit or other proceeding instituted, the Court may make an order to hold him to bail, and may require of him such security as seems fit for his remaining within the particular juris- diction, and abiding by and performing any decree or order to be made in the suit or proceeding, and for costs and fees.

Custs

262. The costs of the whole suit and of each particular proceeding therein are in the discretion of the Court; but the Court shall not order the successful party in a suit to pay to the unsuccessful party the costs of the suit generally, although the Court may order him, notwith- standing his success in the whole suit, to pay the costs occasioned by any particular proceeding therein.

263. The Court may, if in any case it sees fit, require any party to any suit or proceeding, either at the commencement or at any time during the progress thereof, to give security for costs to the satisfaction of the Court by deposit or otherwise.

Paupers

264. The Court may admit any person to sue in forma pauperis on being satisfied of his poverty, and that he has primâ facie a case proper for some relief in the Court; and may admit any person to defend in formâ pauperis on being satisfied of his poverty.

265. If in any case the Court thinks fit to assign a counsel or attorney to assist a person admitted to sue or defend in formâ pauperis, the counsel or attorney so assigned may not refuse his assistance, unless he satisfies the Court of some good reason for refusing.

266. If a pauper gives or agrees to give any fee, profit, recompeuse, or reward for the despatch of his business in Court, he shall be deemed guilty of a contempt of Court, and he shall also be forthwith dispaupered, and shall not be afterwards admitted again in that suit to sue or defend in forma pauperis.

267. A person admitted to sue or defend in formâ pauperis may be dispaupered, by order of the Court, on its appearing that he was not when admitted, or no longer is of sufficient poverty, or that he is abusing his privilege by vexatious proceedings.

Computation of Time

268. Whereby these Rules, or any special order or the course of the Court, any limited time from or after any date or event is appointed or allowed for the doing of any act or the taking of any proceeding, and such time is not limited by hours, the computation of such limited time does not include the day of such date or of the happening of such event, but commences at the beginning of the next following day, and the act or proceeding must be done or taken at the latest on the last day of such limited time according to such computation.

269. Where the limited time so appointed or allowed is less than six days, the following days shall not be reckoned in the computation of such

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