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Masters or their clerks may examine witnesses on accounts or inquires before them.
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49. In all cases where an examination shall be directed by the said Court of Chancery, upon, under, or in aid of any account, inquiry, or other matter whatsoever, which shall at any time be depending before any master of the said court, it shall and may be lawful to and for such master, if he shall think proper, and if he shall not so think proper, then to and for such his clerk in the presence of such master, if such master shall so think fit, without any commission whatsoever, to examine all witnesses who shall be produced before him, touching any matter as to which such examination of witnesses shall have been so directed, or arising thereout, and to take down in writing the depositions of all such witnesses, in the manner and form usual in such cases.
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