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forma pauperis,&quot; upon oath, but for plaintiffs they are 

 ordinarily to be referred to the court of requests, or 

 to the provincial councils, if the case arise in those 

 jurisdictions, or to some gentlemen in the country, 

 except it be in some special cases of commisseration, 

 or potency of the adverse party. 



99. Licences to collect for losses by fire or water 

 are not to be granted, but upon good certificate ; 

 and not for decays of suretyship or debt, or any 

 other casualties whatsoever ; and they are rarely to 

 be renewed ; and they are to be directed ever unto 

 the county where the loss did arise, if it were by fire, 

 and the counties that abut upon it, as the case shall 

 require ; and if it were by sea, then unto the county 

 where the port is, from whence the ship went, and 

 to some sea-counties adjoining. 



100. No exemplification shall be made of letters 

 patents, &quot; inter alia,&quot; with omission of the general 

 words ; nor of records made void or cancelled ; nor 

 of the decrees of this court not inrolled ; nor of de 

 positions by parcel and fractions, omitting the resi 

 due of the depositions in court, to which the hand of 

 the examiner is not subscribed ; nor of records of the 

 court not being inrolled or filed ; nor of records of 

 any other court, before the same be duly certified 

 to this court, and orderly filed here ; nor of any 

 records upon the sight and examination of any copy 

 in paper, but upon sight and examination of the 

 original. 



10 1 . And because time and experience may dis- 



