Rule No. 236. Rule 59 is hereby amended by striking out the words "residing in this state," after the words "not more remote than a brother."

Rule No. 237. Rule 60 is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "No decree pro confesso shall be taken against an absent defendant, who has not appeared or been served with process of subpoena, unless it shall appear by proof that the notice prescribed by the fifty-eighth rule has been served personally upon him, or that it has been published, and also mailed, in the manner required by law, or unless it shall appear by the affidavit of the complainant or his solicitor, or the person actually intrusted with the management and conduct of the suit, that inquiry has been made in good faith, and without success, for the post office address of such defend

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ant, in the manner required by these rules. and in such other manner as the affiant supposed would probably give information thereof if the same could be had. And in a suit for divorce the affidavit shall be made by the complainant or his solicitor, and shall fully specify the inquiry made, of what persons, and in what manner it was made, so that by the facts stated in such affidavit it may appear that the inquiry has been of the character intended not only by the letter, but also by the spirit, of rule 59."

[Promulgated February 3, 1891.]

For rules 222 and 223 of the court of chancery, see 3 Atl. Rep. iii.; for rules 224-228 of the court of chancery, see 6 Atl. Rep. iii.; for rule 230 of the court of chancery, see 14 Atl. Rep. iii.; for rules 234 and 235 of the court of chancery, see 21 Atl. Rep. v.