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4. Every process server shall (before service) compare the copies of the Civil Bills delivered to him for service with their respective originals, and, prior to the service of such copies, endorse his name upon the same; and after he has effected service, shall endorse his name upon the original, the time when the manner in which and the place where such service was made, and the person (whether relative or servant) on whom the same was served.
5. When personal service of any Civil Bill has been effected, and the process server does not know of his own knowledge that the person so served is the person named as defendant in the Civil Bill, satisfactory proof of the identity of the party 80 served must be given.
6. Process servers on or before the day after the last day for service shall return the original Civil Bills to the solicitors from whom the same have been received, and shall attend in the respective sessions towns at such times as the Judge shall direct to deliver such Civil Bills as may not have been returned to the parties plaintiffs.
7. Process servers shall lodge their books in the office of the Clerk of the Peace, when, and as often as the Judge shall direct: the same when lodged to be kept amongst the documents and papers relating to the County Court.
Order VIII.
Entry and Lodgment of Civil Bills for Hearing.
1. All ordinary Civil Bills intended for entry or to be proceeded on at the sessions to which the same are returnable shall be delivered by the party or his solicitor entering the same to the Clerk of the Peace, arranged in alphabetical order according to the surname of the plaintiff or of the first plaintiff (if more than one), at such time as the Judges shall in their respective counties direct.
2. The several solicitors shall, at such time as the respective Judges shall appoint for that purpose, deliver to the Clerk of the Peace a list arranged in alphabetical order of all cases in which they have been employed by defendants to take defence. The solicitor so entering the defence shall be deemed to be the solicitor on record for the defendant.
3. No Civil Bill or defence shall be entered for hearing or received after the time specified by these rules, or that shall be specified by the respective Judges as aforesaid, without the special order of the Judge.
4. Applications for liberty to enter Civil Bills for dismisses shall be made at the close of the hearing of each letter.
5. The plaintiff in every equity suit shall lodge with the Clerk of the Peace in his office, three clear days at least before