tions. After each witness has been examined on the interrogatories in chief, his depositions must be taken to the cross-interrogatories of the other party as follows:

:

Cross-examined.
Question.-Answer.

The Commissioners of the other party may re-examine each witness for the purpose of explaining or qualifying any of his answers given on his cross-examination. All questions put upon such re-examination must be written down, and the 1e-examination taken by way of question and answer, thus:

Re-examined.
Question.-Answer.

All such questions and answers must be returned with the other depositions.

If any papers or documents should be spoken to and produced by any of the witnesses, such papers or documents must be marked with some letter of the alphabet, and a memorandum written thereon and signed by the Acting Commissioners. This memorandum may be in the following form :

In the High Court of Justice.
Queen's Bench Division.

Between A. B., Plaintiff, and C. D., Defendant.

This paper writing, marked with the letter A or B, was produced and shown to M. N., and was by him deposed to on his examination to the interrogatories on the part of the one thousand eight hundred and seventy

and

this

day of

G. H.J
} Commissioners.

And such documents, with such memorandum thereon, must be annexed to the Commission and returned with it, or in case any book is produced, a true copy must be made of that portion of it to which the witness refers, and such copy must also be marked with some letter of the alphabet, and a memorandum written on it and signed by the Commissioners, which memorandum may be in the following form:

In the High Court of Justice.

Queen's Bench Division.

Between A. B., Plaintiff, and C. D., Defendant.

and

We certify that the paper writing, marked A or B, is a true copy of the book produced and shown to M. N., and deposed to by him on his examination to the interrogatories on the part of the so far as the said book was referred to by the said M. N. day of one thousand eight hundred an

Dated this seventy

And such document, with the proper memorandum thereon, must be annexed to the Commission and returned with it. The interrogatories must not be altered, but the witnesses can add any explanations to their evidence, although the interrogatories may not exactly meet the answer.

In case it should be found impossible to examine and cross-examine, and, if necessary, to re-examine all the witnesses in one day, the Acting Commissioners may adjourn the proceedings to the next or any subsequent day; but they should cause a memorandum of their having so adjourned to be made at the part of the proceedings at which they leave off.

The memorandum may be in the following form:—

of the clock adjourn all further pro

Be it remembered that we did then, at the hour of in the afternoon of this ceedings until the

day of

day of

at the hour of

clock in the forenoon, at the house of the said aforesaid.

E. F.

at 9

of the

G. H. } Commissioners.

The deposition of the first witness examined at such second and every subsequent meeting must be preceded by a title similar to that of the commencement of the depositions on the first day of meeting, with the exception only of the necessary alterations of the date, &c.

When the witnesses have all been examined and cross-examined, and, if necessary, re-examined, their depositions must be fairly copied out, and each witness must sign his name at the bottom of each sheet, and also at the end of his depositions. The Acting Commissioners must also sign their names at the end of the interrogatories.

If the Commissioner of either of the parties does not attend, it must be so stated at the foot of the depositions, in the following form :

The Commissioner did not attend the examination of the foregoing witnesses, although served with the three days' notice in writing of the time and place appointed by such notice being left for him at his place of residence at aforesaid.

E. E., Commissioner.

At the end of the fair copy of the depositions the following memorandum must also be written and signed by the Acting Commissioners :

We, the undersigned Commissioners named, in the Commission hereto annexed, before we acted in or were present at the examination of any witness examined under the Commission, severally took the second oath indorsed upon the said Commission.

Dated this

day of

one thousand eight hundred and

seventy

E. F.
G. H.

} Commissioners.

C. F., of

being the Clerk employed by us in taking down

in writing, and transcribing and engrossing the foregoing depositions, was,

before he was permitted to act as such, sworn by us according to the third form of oath indorsed on the Commission.

The Commission, with the interrogatories, depositions and other papers, must then be tied up and sealed by the Commissioners, as directed by the Commission, and then put in a cover and addressed as follows:

To the

In the High Court of Justice.

A. B. v. C. D. Commission.

Masters of the High Court of Justice,

Queen's Bench Division,

Temple, London.

Only one Commissioner on each side should act at any one time.

CHAPTER VII.

FORMS TO BE OBSERVED UNDER THE MARRIAGE AND REGISTRATION ACTS.

Remarks. The Acts relating to the duties of Registrars, which formed enclosures in the Circular of the 6th November, 1849, are:

(Partly repealed by 37 & 38 Vict. c. 68) (7th August, 1874.)

1 Vict., c. 22

(30th June, 1837.)

(Partly repealed as above.)

12 & 13 Vict., c. 68

(28th July, 1849.)

(See Gen. Ins., Annex 14.)

But as these Acts do not provide for the Registration of Births and Deaths of British Subjects in Foreign Countries, Consuls are instructed in the Circular of November 7th, 1849, and par. 14, to keep two Registers (Forms, p. 154 and 156), one for Births and the other for Deaths, and at the expiration of each year to transmit a certified copy (Forms, p. 157 and 158) of each Register so kept during the year which has elapsed, to the Secretary of State for transmission to the Registrar-General. These instructions are extended to Vice-Consuls and Consular Agents by Circular of March 10th, 1871.

With reference to the period within which, after the occurrence of the event, Births or Deaths may be registered by Consular Officers, it is laid down in Circular of March 1st, 1860, that seven years is the utmost limit that should be allowed for such registrations.

The Circular of November 6th, 1849, already referred to, authorized certain Consuls, empowered by warrant under the hand of the Secretary of State, to Solemnize Marriages at British Consulates under the Act 12 & 13 Vict., c. 68, and copies of the several Forms which they are required to make use of in the discharge of their duties under the Act were supplied (Forms, p. 21, 151, &c.)

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By Circular dated November 23rd, 1872, Consular Officers are instructed that "Marriages under the Act are legal when both parties are British subjects, and also when only one of them is British "; but in the latter case the parties should be informed that the Marriage is not necessarily valid out of Her Majesty's dominions, and that they must conform to the requirements of the law of any country, not in those dominions, in which it may be of importance to them that their marriage shall be legally recognized as valid." This warning should never on any account be omitted.

"When one of the parties is a subject of the country in which the marriage is proposed to take place," the party who is not a British subject "must have complied with the Marriage Law of such country as far as it may be possible to do so."

The nationality of the parties is to be inserted after their names in the Notices of Marriage, in the Notice Books, and in the Registers.

The Circular of November 21st, 1873, directs that the warning

prescribed in Circular of November 23rd, 1872, as to mixed marriages solemnized in British Consulates not being necessarily valid out of Her Majesty's dominions, is to be given in the case of every Consular Marriage, both when both parties are British subjects and when only one of them is a British subject.

§ 37 of the "Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1874" (37 & 38 Vict., c. 68), enacts that the Master of every British ship shall record in his Log-Book, in such form as the Board of Trade may direct, the particulars of Births and Deaths occurring on board.

This return is ordered by Board of Trade Circular, No. 29, December, 1875, to be made in the form given in the Official Log-Book, and the same Circular further directs, in virtue of Section 37 (3) of the Act, that on the arrival of the ship at any port abroad, the Consular Officer shall demand from the Master a return filled in on the appropriate form (Eng. 8, 9, and 10, page 163, &c.), for transmission to the Registrar-General of Shipping and Seamen.

It is laid down by the Foreign Office Circular of the 29th May, 1876, that the births of illegitimate children of British parents are not to be registered in Consulates.

FORMS UNDER THE MARRIAGE AND REGISTRATION ACTS. Notice of Marriage.

[Pursuant to Act 12 and 13 Vict., cap 68, sec. 2.]

I hereby give you notice, that a Marriage is intended to be had, within Three Calendar Months from the date hereof, between me and the other party herein named and described (that is to say):

, certify

that Licence has been this day granted by me for the Solemnization of the Marriage in respect of which the above notice was given.

Dated

(Signed.)

N.B. This Certificate and Licence will be void unless the Marriage of the parties named in the above notice be solemnized on or before the