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Duties of deputy keeper of the rolls and clerk of the enrolments.
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24. The duties of the office of deputy keeper of the rolls and the clerk of the enrolments shall be distributed and executed in manner following; that is to say, the deputy keeper of the rolls, in addition to the duties of superintending in general the performance of the ministerial duties in the rolls office, and the other duties heretofore discharged by him with respect to the attested copies of pleadings and certificates, shall, in person or by proper persons duly employed in his office, keep the rough bill book, and insert therein the name or names of the plaintiff or plaintiffs, and defendant or defendants (as the case may be), the counsel’s name, and the name of the . . solicitor respectively, the time of filing the bill . .; and shall also in like manner, within one week from the filing of each bill, enter the same in the book of pleadings; and shall also in like manner enter into the said book of pleadings all answers, pleas, demurrers, replications, and rejoinders; and shall in like manner make the entries and do the duties as to amended bills and pleadings heretofore discharged by the clerk of the enrolments; . . . and the clerk of the enrolments shall in like manner make searches and discharge the duties in relation thereunto, and attend the masters under orders to expunge where pleadings are reported scandalous, prolix, or impertinent, and attend the masters and courts of justice with the records when offered in evidence, and make all enrolments and enter and index the same; and further shall in like manner open and keep in the office, as part of the public books thereof to which reference may be had, a calendar or index of the decrees to be enrolled; which calendar or index shall be kept in the same manner, containing similar heads, and specifying similar particulars, as the index furnished at the rolls-office by the commissioners of public records of Ireland, and shall be continued from the first day of Hilary term one thousand eight hundred and twenty-three, mentioned in such index; and the clerk of the said enrolments shall in like manner complete the entry of all decrees enrolled in the preceding term and vacation on or before the first sitting day of each ensuing term.
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