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not "clear days," shall be exclusive of the first and inclusive of the last.

17. All accounts, copies, papers, notices, and other documents lodged with the Clerk of the Peace or Registrar are to be written upon judicature paper bookwise, unless the nature of the document renders it impracticable to do so, and any document not plainly and legibly written shall be refused.

18. Every notice or other document, the service of which by post is permitted under these rules, or the service of which by post shall be directed by the Judge, shall be deemed sufficiently given and served if transmitted by the post by registered letter, the postage being prepaid, addressed to the person or persons directed to be served at his or their present or last known place of abode, and such service shall be proved by affidavit.

19. Unless the Judge shall otherwise order, no decree, dismiss, order, recognisance, or other document requiring the signature of the Judge shall be received by the Clerk of the Peace or Registrar, unless the same shall be free from all erasures, inter- lineations, or other alterations.

20. When documents in the office of the Clerk of the Peace are required by any party to be produced in evidence, notice in writing to produce the same shall be served at his office, on the Clerk of the Peace, three clear days before the first day of the sessions where the same may be required.

21. No solicitor, or apprentice to a solicitor, or process officer or other officer of the County Court shall be bail in any matter in the County Court.

22. Subject to the foregoing rules and orders, the enactments, and practice relating to ordinary Civil Bill actions shall, so far as the same are applicable, apply to every proceeding^[1] under the equitable jurisdiction of the Civil Bill Court, save a lunacy proceeding, and when such enactments and practice are not applicable to such proceedings, the enactments and practice relating to the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice in Ireland shall be followed in such proceedings so far as the same are applicable, mutatis mutandis. Provided always, that it shall not be necessary to renew any decree or order of whatsoever nature made in any suit or matter in equity.

23. Searches may be made on such days in each week as shall be fixed from time to time by the Judge, and notice thereof shall be printed and kept posted on some conspicuous place in the office of the Clerk of the Peace.