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which shall contain: (1) the relevant docket entries in the proceeding below; (2) any relevant pleading, charge, finding or opinion; (3) the judgment, order or decision in question; and (4) any other parts of the record to which the parties wish to direct the court's particular attention. At the same time or promptly thereafter the appellant or petitioner shall file with the clerk a statement of the costs of preparing the appendix. The appellant or petitioner shall serve at least three copies of the appendix and a copy of the statement of costs on each of the other parties to the proceeding.

2. The parties are encouraged to agree as to the contents of the appendix. In the absence of agreement, not later than ten days after the order noting or postponing jurisdiction or of the order granting the writ of certiorari, the appellant or petitioner shall serve on the appellee or respondent a designation of the parts of the record which he intends to include in the appendix and a statement of the issues which he intends to present for review. If in the judgment of the appellee or respondent the parts of the record designated by the appellant or petitioner are not sufficient, the appellee or respondent shall, within ten days after receipt of the designation, serve upon the appellant or petitioner a designation of additional parts to be included in the appendix. The appellant or petitioner shall include the parts thus designated in the appendix. In designating parts of the record for inclusion in the appendix, the parties shall have regard for the fact that the record on file with the clerk is always available to the court for reference and examination and shall not engage in unnecessary designation.

3. Unless the parties otherwise agree, the cost of producing the appendix shall initially be paid by the appellant or petitioner, but if the appellant or petitioner considers that parts of the record designated by the appellee or respondent for inclusion are unnecessary for the determination of the issues presented he may so

advise the appellee or respondent and the appellee or respondent shall advance the cost of including such parts unless the court or a justice by appropriate order fixes the initial allocation of the expense of printing the appendix. The cost of producing the appendix shall be taxed as costs in the case, but if either party shall cause matter to be included in the appendix unnecessarily the court may impose the cost of producing such parts on the party.

4. If the parties shall so stipulate, or the court shall so order, preparation of the appendix may be deferred until after the briefs have been filed, and the appendix may be filed fourteen days after service of the brief of the appellee or respondent, or at least twenty days before the case is set for argument, whichever is later. If the preparation and filing of the appendix are thus deferred, the provisions of paragraphs 1, 2, and 3 of this rule shall apply, except that the designations referred to therein shall be made by each party at the time his brief is served, and a statement of the issues presented shall be unnecessary.

5. If the deferred appendix authorized by paragraph 4 of this rule is employed, references in the briefs to the record may be to the pages of the parts of the record involved, in which event the original paging of each part of the record shall be indicated in the appendix by placing in brackets the number of each page at the place in the appendix where that page begins. Or if a party desires to refer in his brief directly to pages of the appendix, he may serve and file typewritten or page proof copies of his brief within the time required by Rule 41, with appropriate references to the pages of the parts of the record involved. In that event, within ten days after the appendix is filed he shall serve and file copies of the brief in the form prescribed by Rule 39 containing references to the pages of the appendix in place of or in addition to the initial references to the pages of the parts of the record involved. No other changes may be

made in the brief as initially served and filed, except that typographical errors may be corrected.

6. At the beginning of the appendix there shall be inserted a list of the parts of the record which it contains in the order in which the parts are set out therein, with references to the pages of the appendix at which each part begins. The relevant docket entries shall be set out following the list of contents. Thereafter, other parts of the record shall be set out in chronological order. When matter contained in the reporter's transcript of proceedings is set out in the appendix, the page of the transcript at which such matter may be found shall be indicated in brackets immediately before the matter which is set out. Omissions in the text of papers or of the transcript must be indicated by asterisks. Immaterial formal matters (captions, subscriptions, acknowledgments, etc.) shall be omitted. A question and its answer may be contained in a single paragraph.

7. Exhibits designated for inclusion in the appendix may be contained in a separate volume, or volumes, suitably indexed. The transcript of a proceeding before an administrative agency, board, commission or officer used in an action in the district court shall be regarded as an exhibit for the purpose of this paragraph.

8. The court may by order dispense with the requirement of an appendix and may permit cases to be heard on the original record, with such copies of the record, or relevant parts thereof, as the court may require.

9. For good cause shown the time limits specified in this rule may be shortened or enlarged by the court, by a justice thereof, or by the clerk under the provisions of paragraph 5 of Rule 34. .

37.

TRANSLATIONS.

Whenever any record transmitted to this court shall contain any document, paper, testimony, or other proceedings in a foreign language, without a translation of

such document, paper, testimony, or other proceedings, made under the authority of the lower court, or admitted to be correct, the case shall be reported by the clerk, to the end that this court may order that a translation be supplied and, if necessary, printed as a part of the appendix.

38.

MODELS, DIAGRAMS, AND EXHIBITS OF MATERIAL.

1. Models, diagrams, and exhibits of material forming part of the evidence taken in a case, and brought up to this court for its inspection, shall be placed in the custody of the clerk at least one week before the case is heard or submitted.

2. All such models, diagrams, and exhibits of material. placed in the custody of the clerk must be taken away by the parties within forty days after the case is decided. When this is not done, it shall be the duty of the clerk to notify counsel to remove the articles forthwith; and if they are not removed within a reasonable time after such notice, the clerk shall destroy them, or make such other disposition of them as to him may seem best.

39.

FORM OF APPENDICES, PETITIONS, BRIEFS, ETC. 1. All appendices, petitions, motions and briefs, printed for the use of the court must be in such form and size that they can be conveniently bound together, so as to make an ordinary octavo volume, having pages 6% by 94 inches and type matter. 4% by 7% inches, except that appendices in patent cases may be printed in such size as is necessary to utilize copies of patent documents. They and all quotations contained therein, and the matter appearing on the covers, must be printed in clear type (never smaller than 11-point type) adequately leaded; and the paper must be opaque and unglazed. If footnotes are included, they may not be printed in type smaller than 9-point.

2. All printed documents presented to the court, other than appendices, must bear on the cover the name and post office address of the member of the bar of this court who is counsel of record for the party concerned, and upon whom service is to be made. The individual names of other counsel and, if desired, their post office addresses, may be added. The body of the document shall at its close bear the printed names of counsel of record and of such other individual counsel as may be desired. One copy of every printed motion filed with the clerk (other than a motion to dismiss or affirm under Rule 16) must in addition bear, at the appropriate place in the body thereof, the manuscript signature of counsel of record.

3. All printed documents presented to the court other than appendices, which in this respect are governed by Rule 36, shall, unless they are less than ten pages in length, be preceded by a subject index of the matter contained therein, with page references, and a table of the cases (alphabetically arranged), text books and statutes cited, with references to the pages where they are cited.

4. Printing, as the term is used in these rules, shall include any process capable of producing a clear black image on white paper but shall not include ordinary carbon copies. If papers are filed in a form which is not clearly legible, the clerk will require that new copies be substituted, but the filing shall not thereby be deemed untimely.

40.

BRIEFS-IN GENERAL.

1. Briefs of an appellant or petitioner on the merits shall be printed as prescribed in Rule 39, and shall contain in the order here indicated

(a) A reference to the official and unofficial reports of the opinions delivered in the courts below, if there were such and they have been reported.

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