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Examiners and commissioners shall take the depositions personally.
Clerks to examiners shall take the oath hereby prescribed.
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46. Every examiner, deputy examiner, and commission examiner shall take down the depositions of all witnesses on their examination with his own hand, and no clerk shall be present at any such examination; and every clerk who shall be employed before publication, so as to have any access to any deposition or depositions, shall, before he shall act in the execution of such office, and he is hereby required to take and subscribe the following oath before the examiner by whom any such clerk shall respectively be so employed, and such examiner is hereby empowered and required to administer the said oath:
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‘I C.D. do swear, that according to the best of my skill and knowledge I will truly and faithfully execute and exercise the office of a copying clerk in the office of A.B. one of the examiners of his Majesty’s High Court of Chancery in Ireland, whereunto I am admitted, so long as I shall continue to hold the said office; and that I will also well and faithfully preserve and keep such of the King’s records wherewith I shall be entrusted, or whereunto I shall have access; and that I will not publish, disclose, or make known to any person or persons whatsoever the particulars or the purport or contents of any deposition or depositions copied or read by me in the execution of my said office, or to which I shall have access thereby, until publication thereof respectively shall duly pass.
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