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     and authority in respect to the Supreme Court‘before the Master of the Rolls, or the A V100 
     
    
   
   
    
     in this Island as the present Assistant Judge 
     
     of the said Supreme Court now hath and 
     
     possesses. \ 
     
    

    
     III. That the said Vice Chancellor, in all 
     
     cases, except in appeals from his decisions and 
     
     hearings thereon before the Chancellor. shall be 
     
     and be deemed an additional adviser and Judge 
     
     of the said Court of Chancery, and shall have 
     
     power to sign all rules, orders and decrees 
     
     made by him therein, and shall, in every 
     
     respect whatever, have a co-ordinate jurisdiction 
     
     with the Master of the Rolls of this Island ; 
     
     and the signature of the Chancellor, except in 
     
     the cases aforesaid, shall not be necessary to 
     
     the validity of any such rules and orders in 
     
     any cause, or to any decree made in the absence 
     
     of the Chancellor from this Island. Provided 
     
    
   
   
    
     always, that the enrollment of all decrees shall ; 
     
    
   
   
    
     be signed by the Chancellor to whom the same 
     
     shall be presented to be signed forenrollment. 
     
    

    
     IV. That the. said Vice Chancellor and 
     
     assistant Judge appointed under and by virtue 
     
     of this Act, shall be deemed ineligible for hold- 
     
     ing a seat in either the Executive, or Legisla- 
     
     tive Council, or House of Assembly of this 
     
     Island, nor shall it be lawful for him to practice 
     
     in any manner as a Solicitor, Proctor, Master 
     
     in Chancery, Attorney, or Counsel, or to hold 
     
     any Agency of any kind whatsoever, or to act 
     
     as an Agent, or to be concerned in any man- 
     
     ner either directly or indirectly in the manage 
     
     ment. of lands or collection of rents in this 
     
     Island, not being bona fide the Estate and pro— 
     
     perty owned by such Vice Chancellor and As- 
     
     sistant Judge. 1 
     
    

    
     V. That there shall be no fees in Chancery 
     
     paid to the said Vice Chancellor. 
     
    
   
   
    
     VI. That from and alter the passing of this 
     
     Act, all suits, proceedings, matters and things 
     
     in Chancery to be instituted or commenced 
     
     before the Master of the Rolls, shall be prose- 
     
     cuted, heard and determined before and by him, 
     
     and in like manner,all Suits, proceedings, mat- 
     
     ters and things in Ch incery to be instituted or 
     
     commenced before the Vice Chancellor, shall be 
     
     prosecuted, heard and determined before and 
     
     by him, except as hereinafter provided in the 
     
     next section, and all Bills of. whatsoever kind, 
     
     and all Petitions shall be entitled ‘ InChancery,’ 
     
     “ Before the Master ofthe Rolls” or “ Before 
     
     the Vice Chancellor,” and shall be. directed to 
     
     the Master of the Rolls or the Vice' Chancellor, 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     Chancellor, and the several prayers thereof 
     
     shall be accordingly. 
     
    

    
     VII. In cases of the death, illnesss, incapa- 
     
     city, absence or other cause, whereby either 
     
     the Master of the Rolls or Vice Chancellor 
     
     shall be unable to proceed with or hear a cause, or 
     
     any motion or argument in any cause, entitled 
     
     before either of them, it shall be lawfal for the 
     
     other of them in his discretion to act for such 
     
     Master of the Rolls or Vice Chancellor in 
     
     such matter, and to hear any cause, motion or 
     
     argument for and on behalf of the other of them 
     
     so absent, or incapacitated, as aforesaid, and 
     
     any decree made or given, or any order or de- 
     
     cree made in any such cause shall be deemed 
     
     to have been in the Court in which such pro- 
     
     ceedings shall have been first instituted, and 
     
     my order or decree required to be signed 
     
     under the aforesaid provision shall be signed 
     
     A. B., acting Master of the Rolls, or C. D., act- 
     
     ting Vice Chancellor, as the case may be. 
     
    
   
   
    
     VIII. And whereas it is necessary to pro- 
     
     vide an appellate Jurisdiction from any decision 
     
     of the Master of the Rolls and Vice Chancellor, 
     
     in addition to the right of appeal to the Chan- 
     
     cellor : Be it therefore enacted by the authority, 
     
     aforesaid, that the Chief Justice of the Supreme 
     
     Court, shall, together with the Master of the 
     
     Rolls and Vice Chancellor, constitute a Court 
     
     of Appeal in Equity, of which Court the said 
     
     Chief Justice shall be the Presiding Judge. 
     
    

    
     IX. When a party to a suit or other proceed- 
     
     ing in Chancery, shall deem himself aggrieved 
     
     by any order, decree, direction or judgment of 
     
     the Master of the Rolls or Vice Chancellor, he 
     
     shall be at liberty to appeal from such order, 
     
     decree, direction or judgment to the said Court 
     
     of Appeal in Equity, in such way and manner, 
     
     and subject to such directions as shall hereafter 
     
     be prescribed, directed and appointed by the 
     
     consolidated orders hereinafter referred to. 
     
    

    
     X. Immediately after the appointment of a 
     
     Vice Chancellor, under the provisions of this 
     
     Act, the Chief Justice, as the Presiding Judge 
     
     of the Court of Appeal in Equity, together with 
     
     the Master of the Rolls and Vice Chancellor, 
     
     shall appoint three Barristers of the Court of , 
     
     Chancery, to revise, consolidate and amend the 
     
     rules of the said Court, and to frame other rules, 
     
     directing and declaring the forms of writs and 
     
     processes, and other. forms of puoccdu-re and 
     
     practice, in all matters and proceedings of the 
     
    
   
   
    
     according as the parties may elect to prt)(tee(l§s:iirl t'eurt of Chancery, either‘ before the,