THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.

entitled to cross-examine the witnesses to be examined
thereunder, two clear days before such commission or
requisition shall issue under seal of the Court; and
they, or either of them, may apply to the Registrar
by summons, to alter or amend the commission or
requisition, or to insert any special provision therein;
and the Registrar shall make an order on such appli-
cation, or refer the matter to the Judge. (Form of
Commission and Requisition, Appendix, No. 19.)

134. Any of the parties to the cause may apply to
     the Registrar by summons for leave to join in a
     commission or requisition, and to examine witnesses
     thereunder; and the Registrar to whom the applica-
     tion is made, may direct the necessary alterations to
     be made in the commission or requisition for that
     purpose, and settle the same, or refer the application
     to the Judge.

135. After the issuing of a summons to show why
     a party to the cause should not have leave to join in
     a commission or requisition, such commission or
     requisition shall not issue under scal without the
     direction of the Registrar.

136. In case a husband or wife shall apply for and
     obtain an order or a commission or requisition for the
     examination of witnesses, the wife shall be at liberty
     without any special order for that purpose, to apply
     by summons to the Registrar to ascertain and report
     to the Court, what is a sufficient sum of money to be
     paid or secured to the wife to cover her expenses in
     attending at the examination of such witnesses, in
     pursuance of such order, or in virtue of such com-
     mission or requisition; and such sum of money shall
     be paid or secured before such order or such commis-
     sion or requisition shall issue from the Registrar's
     Office, unless the Judge, or the Registrar in his
     absence, shall otherwise direct.

Affidavits.

137. Every affidavit is to be drawn in the first
     person; and the addition and true place of abode of
     every deponent is to be inserted therein.

138. In every affidavit made by two or more persons,
     the names of the several persons making it are to be
     written in the jurat.

139. No affidavit will be admitted in any matter
     depending in the Court under the Act, in which any
     material part is written on an erasure, or in which
     there is any interlineation the extent of which, at the
     time when the affidavit was sworn, is not clearly
     shewn by the initials of the person before whom it
     was sworn.

140. When an affidavit is made by any person who
     is blind, or who, from his or her signature or other-
     wise, appears to be illiterate, the person before whom
     such affidavit is made is to state in the jurat that the
     affidavit was read in the presence of the party making
     the same, and that such party seemed perfectly to
     understand the same, and also made his or her mark,
     or wrote his or her signature thereto, in the presence
     of such person before whom the affidavit was made.

141. No affidavit is to be deemed sufficient which
     has been sworn before the party on whose behalf the
     same is offered, or before his solicitor, or before a
     partner or clerk of his or her solicitor.

142. Solicitorsandtheir clerks respectively, if acting
     for any other solicitor, shall be subject to the Rules
     and Regulations in respect of taking affidavits which
     are applicable to those in whose stead they are acting.

143. When a special time is fixed for filing
     affidavits, no affidavit filed after that time shall be
     used, unless by leave of the Judge.

144. The above Rules and Regulations in respect
     to affidavits shall, so far as the same are applicable,
     be observed in respect to affirmations and declarations
     to be read or used in the Court, or before a Judge
     sitting in Court or in Chambers, under the Act.

Cases for Motion.

145. Cases for motion are to set forth the
     style and object of, and the names and descriptions
     of the parties to, the cause or proceeding before the
     Court; the proceedings already had in the cause, and
     the dates of the same; the prayer of the party on
     whose behalf the motion is made; and briefly, the
     circumstances on which it is founded.

146. If the cases tendered are deficient in any of
     the above particulars, the same shall not be received
     in the Registrar's Office, without permission of the
     Registrar.

147. On depositing the case in the Registrar's
     Office, and giving notice of the motion, the affidavits
     in support of the motion, and all original documents
     referred to in such affidavits, or to be referred to by
     Counsel on the hearing of the motion, must be also
     left in the Registrar's Office; or in case such
     affidavits or documents have been already filed or
     deposited in the Registrar's Office, the same must be
     searched for, looked up and deposited with the proper
     clerk, in order to their being sent with the case to
     the Judge.

148. Copies of any affidavits or documents to be
     read or used in support of a motion or summons, are
     to be delivered to the opposite parties to the suit
     who are entitled to be heard in opposition thereto.

Taxing Bills of Costs.

149. All bills of costs are referred to the Registrar
     for taxation, and may be taxed by him without
     any special order for that purpose. Such bills are to
     be filed in the Registrar's Office.

150. Notice of the time appointed for taxation
     will be forwarded to the party filing the bill at the
     address furnished by such party.

151. The party who has obtained an appointment
     to tax a bill of costs shall give the other party
     or parties to be heard on the taxation thereof at least
     one clear day's notice of such appointment, and
     shall, at or before the same time, deliver to him
     or them a copy of the bill to be taxed.

152. When an appointment has been made by
     a Registrar for taxing any bill of costs, and any
     parties to be heard on the taxation do not attend
     at the time appointed, the Registrar may never-
     theless proceed to tax the bill after the expiration of
     a quarter of an hour, upon being satisfied by affidavit
     that the parties not in attendance had due notice
     of the time appointed.

153. The bill of costs of any solicitor will be
     taxed on his application, as against his client, after
     sufficient notice given to the person or persons liable
     for the payment thereof; or on the application of
     such person or persons, after sufficient notice given
     to the practitioner.

154. The fees payable on the taxation of any
     bill of costs shall be paid by the party on whose
     application the bill is taxed, and shall be allowed
     as part of such bill; but if more than one-sixth of
     the amount of any bill of costs taxed as between
     practitioner and client is disallowed on the taxation
     thereof, no costs incurred in such taxation shall be
     allowed as part of such bill.

155. If any order for payment of costs is required,
     the same may be obtained by summons, on the
     amount of such costs being certified by the Registrar.

Wife's Costs.

156. After directions given as to the mode of
     hearing or trial of a cause, or in an earlier stage of a
     cause by order of the Judge, or of the Registrar
     in his absence, to be obtained on summons, a wife
     who has entered an appearance may file her bill
     of costs for taxation as against her husband; and the
     Registrar to whom such bill of costs is referred
     for taxation shall, at the same time, if directions