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     Master of the Rolls, Vice Chancellor, Court of 
     
     Appeal in Equity, or the Chancellor, which, 
     
     when approved of by the said Court of Appeal 
     
     in Equity, (which said approval shall be signi- 
     
     fied in writing and published in the Royal 
     
     Gazette, shall, and the same are hereby de- 
     
     clared to be received, deemed and taken of the 
     
     same force and effect, as if part and parcel of 
     
     this Act, and shall be deemed and known as 
     
     the “Consolidated Orders, 1869; ” provided 
     
     always,that the said Court of Appeal in Equity, 
     
     shall have power to make such other orders and 
     
     directions as to them shall seem expedient, and 
     
     from time to time to alter, vary, and change 
     
     the same, as occasion shall be or require. 
     
    

    
     XI. Nothing herein contained shall be taken 
     
     or construed to give any jurisdiction in Equity 
     
     to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, ex- 
     
     cept when acting in his capacity as presiding 
     
     Jugde of the Court of Appeal in equity as 
     
     aforesaid. . 
     
    

    
     XII. The Vice Chancellor shall rank next 
     
     after the Master of the Rolls. 
     
    

    
     XIII. The said Court of Appeal in equity 
     
     shall hold its sittings immediately after the 
     
     termination of the terms or sittings of the 
     
     Supreme Court in Queen’s County, or, in case 
     
     there be not time, to hold such sitting before 
     
     the then next succeeding term of the Supreme 
     
     Court in any other County, the said Court 
     
     of Appeal in Equity shall upen the last day of 
     
     the term of the Supreme Court in Queen’s 
     
     Couty, be adjourned to some convenient day to 
     
     be named by the Judges thereof, and the parties 
     
     to such appeal shall be bound to take notice of 
     
     such adjournment. 
     
    

    
     XIV. The said Court of Appeal shall have 
     
     power to reverse, confirm, alter, vary or change 
     
     any order, decree, direction or judgment of 
     
     the Master of the Rolls or Vice Chancellor as 
     
     the Court shall, in their discretion, see fit; 
     
     and the said Court shall have power to remit 
     
     the said cause to the Master of the Rolls or 
     
     Vice Chancellor, as the case may be, for the 
     
     final decision of either of them, in case there 
     
     has been an appeal upon any matter or thing 
     
     before a. final decree shall have been made in 
     
     such cause, and shall have power to make such 
     
     order, as to costs, as the said Court shall deem 
     
     expedient; and any service performed in any 
     
     cause or matter in the Court of Chancery, and 
     
     not provided for by the Schedule to the twelfth 
     
     Victoria, chapter fourteen, shall be allowed for 
     
    
   
   
    
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     XV. Nothing herein contained shall be 
     
     deemed to effect or take away any right now 
     
     possessed by any parties to appeal to the Chan- 
     
     cellor of the Court of Chancery in this Island. 
     
    

    
     XVI. The Chief Justice of the Court of 
     
     Appeal in Equity shall not be disqualified from 
     
     presiding over such Court of Appeal by reason 
     
     of administering the Government of the Colony. 
     
    

    
     XVII. All writs and processes issuing out 
     
     of the Court of the Master of the Rolls and the 
     
     Vice Chancellor’s Court, shall be respectively 
     
     sealed with Seals having upon them, respective- 
     
     ly, the words, “ Rolls’ Court” or “ Vice 
     
     Chancellor’s Court,” Prince Edward Island, as 
     
     the case may be. 
     
    

    
     XVIII. In suits or causes to be depending 
     
     and ready for hearing, or at issue in Chancery 
     
     in this Island, in which either or any party 
     
     thereto shall be desirous to take the depositions 
     
     of witnesses residing out of this Island, to be 
     
     read as evidence in such cause or suit, it shall 
     
     and may be lawful for the Chancellor, Master 
     
     of the Rolls or Vice Chancellor, upon sufficient 
     
     cause being shown, by affidavit, made by or on 
     
     behalf of the party desiring the same, to autho- 
     
     rize the issuing of a Commission, under the 
     
     seal of the Court of Chancery, for taking such 
     
     depositions, in such manner and under such 
     
     rules, restrictions and regulations as the Chan- 
     
     cellor, Master of the Rolls or Vice Chancellor 
     
     shall, in each case, think fit and order, and 
     
     such depositions so taken shall be read as evi- 
     
     dence in the hearing of the suit or cause the 
     
     same as if‘ taken before a Master, saving all 
     
     just exceptions; and the costs attending the 
     
     issuing of such Commission and taking such 
     
     depositions shall be taxed like other costs in 
     
     the cause ; provided always, that if the Chan- 
     
     cellor, Master of the Rolls or Vice Chancellor 
     
     (according to the one of them that shall hear 
     
     the cause,) shall be of Opinion that such Com- 
     
     mission was unnecessarily issued, then no costs 
     
     shall be paid by any other party to the party 
     
     issuing the same. 
     
    

    
     XIX. -After the approval and publication of 
     
     the consolidated orders 1869, hereinbefore re- 
     
     ferred to the practice of examining witnesses 
     
     in a cause before a Master shall be abolished, 
     
     and when any suit or cause shall after the ap- 
     
     pro val and publication of the said consolidated 
     
     orders, 1866, be pending in Chancery in this 
     
     Island, and shall be at issue or ready for hear- 
     
     ing, it shall be lawful for the parties, or any of‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     in the discretion of the said Court. 
     
    
   
   
    
     the parties thereto, to produce their witnesses