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No. 29.

(FEBRUARY TERM, 1821.)

Ordered, After the present term no cause Briefs. standing for argument will be heard by the Court until the parties shall have furnished the court with a printed brief or abstract of the cause, containing the substance of all the material pleadings, facts, and documents on which the parties rely, and the points of law and fact intended to be presented at the argument. (See Rules 8, 53, and 57.)

No. 30.

(FEBRUARY TERM, 1821.)

Docket and

In all cases where a writ of error or an appeal Entry. shall be brought to this Court from any judgment dismiss. or decree rendered thirty days before the term to which such writ of error or appeal shall be returnable, it shall be the duty of the plaintiff in error, or appellant, as the case may be, to docket the cause, and file the record thereof with the Clerk of this Court within the first six days of the term; on failure to do which, the defendant in error, or appellee, as the case may be, may docket the cause, and file a copy of the record with the Clerk, and thereupon the cause shall stand for trial in like manner as if the record had been duly filed within the first six days of the term; or at his option he may have the cause docketed and dismissed, upon producing a certificate from the Clerk of the Court wherein

Record must

be complete.

Certiorari.

Objections to
Evidence.

the judgment or decree was rendered, stating the cause, and certifying that such writ of error or appeal had been duly sued out and allowed. (See Rules 15, 19, 43, and 63.)

No. 31.

(FEBRUARY TERM, 1823.)

No cause will hereafter be heard until a complete record, containing in itself, without references aliunde, all the papers, exhibits, depositions, and other proceedings which are necessary to the hearing in this Court, shall be filed. (See Rule 11.)

No. 32.

(FEBRUARY TERM, 1824.)

No certiorari for diminution of the record shall be hereafter awarded in any cause, unless a motion therefor shall be made in writing, and the facts on which the same is founded shall, if not admitted by the other party, be verified by affidavit. And all motions for such certiorari shall be made at the first term of the entry of the cause; otherwise, the same shall not be granted, unless upon special cause shown to the Court, accounting satisfactorily for the delay.

No. 33.

(FEBRUARY TERM, 1824.)

In all cases of equity and admiralty jurisdiction heard in this Court, no objection shall here

after be allowed to be taken to the admissibility of any deposition, deed, grant, or other exhibit found in the record as evidence, unless objection was taken thereto in the Court below and entered of record; but the same shall otherwise be deemed to have been admitted by consent.

No. 34.

(FEBRUARY TERM, 1824.)

[RESCINDED.]-On Saturday of each week during the sitting of the Court, motions in cases not required by the rules of the Court to be put upon the docket shall be entitled to preference, if such motions shall be made before the Court shall have entered upon the hearing of a cause upon the docket. (See Rule 50.)

No. 35.

(FEBRUARY TERM, 1825.)

be taken from

Ordered, That after the present term no origi- Record not to nal record shall be taken from the Supreme Clerk's office. Court room, or from the office of the Clerk of this Court. (See Rule 12.)

No. 36.

(JANUARY TERM, 1830.)

The Court, on the second day in each term Call of docket. hereafter, will commence calling the cases for argument in the order in which they stand on the docket, and proceed from day to day during

Costs to clerk.

Record printed.

Cost of record.

the term, in the same order; and if the parties, .or either of them, shall be ready when the case is called, the same will be heard; and if neither party shall be ready to proceed in the argument, the cause shall go down to the foot of the docket unless some good and satisfactory reason to the contrary shall be shown to the Court. That ten causes only shall be considered as liable to be called on each day during the term, including the one under argument, if the same shall not be concluded on the preceding day. No cause shall be taken up out of the order on the docket, or be set down for any particular day, except under special and peculiar circumstances to be shown to the Court. Every cause which shall have been twice called in its order, and passed, and put at the foot of the docket, shall, if not again reached during the term it was called be continued to the next term of the Court.

No. 37.

(JANUARY TERM, 1831.)

1. In all cases the Clerk shall take of the plaintiff a bond with a competent security, to respond to costs, in the penalty of two hundred dollars; or a deposit of that amount to be placed in bank subject to his draft.

2. In all cases the Clerk shall have fifteen copies of the records printed for the Court, proIvided the Government will admit the item in the expenses of the Court.

3. In all cases the Clerk shall deliver a copy

And in

of the printed record to each party.
cases of dismission (except for want of jurisdic-.
tion) or affirmance, one copy of the record shall be
taxed against the plaintiff, which charge includes
the charge for the copy furnished him.

In case of reversal and dismission for want of jurisdiction, each party shall be charged with one-half the legal fees for a copy. (See Rules 21

and 45.)

No. 38.

(JANUARY TERM, 1832.)

It is ordered by the Court, That hereafter, the Exceptions. Judges of the Circuit and District Courts do not allow any bill of exceptions, which shall contain the charge of the Court at large to the jury in trials at common law, upon any general exception to the whole of such charge. But that the party excepting be required to state distinctly the several matters of law in such charge to which he excepts; and that such matters of law, and those only, be inserted in the bill of exceptions, and allowed by the Court.

No. 39.

(JANUARY TERM, 1833.)

1. It is ordered by the Court, That during the Library. session of the Court, any gentleman of the bar having a cause on the docket, and wishing to use any book or books in the Law Library, shall be at liberty, upon application to the Clerk of the Court, to receive an order to take the same (not

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