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Chief examiners to appoint deputies only in cases of necessity allowed by the court.
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45. And whereas the chief examiners of the said court are by their appointments authorized to appoint deputies, and it is not fit that such power should be exercised without sufficient reason: Be it enacted, that no such chief examiner shall in any case appoint a deputy, unless and until the occasion for such appointment, and also the person to be appointed, shall have been approved of by the court, upon a petition verified by affidavit; and that nothing shall be considered by the court as a fit occasion for such appointment, but inability in the principal to attend, either from sickness or from unavoidable business; and such order shall be regularly entered in the registrar’s office; and no such appointment shall continue for any longer time than shall be allowed or directed by such order, either by fixing a precise time, or by some general words, or by reference to some matter capable of being distinctly ascertained, or in such other manner as the court shall think proper; and if any such appointment shall be made otherwise than as aforesaid, or for any longer period than as aforesaid, then and in every such case such chief examiner making such appointment, and also such deputy, if he shall presume to act therein, shall be deemed guilty of a contempt of the court, and be punished accordingly.
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