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process on the door or other conspicuous portion of such house, residence, or place of business.

2. Where any such defendant shall not be resident within a county of a city, or county of a town, it shall, in addition to the existing modes of service, be sufficient service of such processes to affix a copy of the process on the petty sessions or other court-house nearest to the residence of the defendant, in the division in which the defendant resides, and on the usual place for posting notices in the market town nearest to the residence of such defendant, and to send by post a copy of the process in a prepaid letter addressed to such defendant at his usual place of residence, provided that such postings and transmission by post shall be effected at least fifteen clear days before the first day of the sessions for the division at which the defendant shall be required to appear.

3. The Civil Bill in equity suits shall be served one calendar month at least before the return day.

4. Service of the Civil Bill in any equity suit on the defendant shall be effected in the manner prescribed for the service of ordinary Civil Bills, unless otherwise directed by the Judge, who may direct service to be substituted, or that service already had be deemed good service, as the case may be.

5. All Civil Bills in equity suits shall, where the defendant or defendants therein named reside within the county, be served by one of the process officers of the Court, and where the defendant or any of the defendants therein named resides out of the county, the same may be served by any person whomsoever, and such service out of the county may be proved orally or by affidavit, such affidavit of service to be lodged with the Clerk of the Peace before the hearing of the suit, and to be filed by him in his office, and the Clerk of the Peace or Registrar shall make an entry in the "Equity Civil Bill Book" of the mode of service of the respective defendants whether by affidavit or otherwise.

6. Copies of the replevin process lodged with the Clerk of the Peace shall be served six clear days at least before the return day.

7. Where the defendant in any action brought under the provisions of the 30th, 31st, 32nd, or 33rd sections of the Landlord and Tenant Law Amendment Act (Ireland), 1860,^[1] or under the 45th, 46th, or 82nd sections of the same Act, shall not have a residence in the county in which the Civil Bill is returnable, or brought under section 1 of the 37 & 38 Vict. c. 66., or any Act extending or amending the same, the Civil Bill shall be served on the defendant therein fifteen clear days before the return day.

8. Where the defendant in any action brought under the

provisions of the 30th, 31st, 32nd, 33rd, 45th, 46th, or 82nd