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1. When in any action, suit, or matter any account shall be directed to be taken or inquiry made, such account shall be taken and inquiry made by the Clerk of the Peace or the Registrar, as the Judge may direct, and such Clerk of the Peace or Registrar in equity suits shall for that purpose have all the powers which a Chief Clerk of the Master of the Rolls or of a Vice-Chancellor of the Court of Chancery had prior to the 1st day of January 1878.

2. When the Clerk of the Peace or Registrar is ordered to make inquiries or to take accounts, otherwise than during the sittings of the Court, he shall by summons, according to the form in the schedule, and returnable not less than seven days from the date of the order or decree, addressed to all parties entitled or required to attend, direct such parties to attend at the office of the Clerk of the Peace, or at the Court, or at such other place as the Judge shall direct, for the purpose of proceeding with such inquiries or accounts. In all cases in which advertisements are ordered the Clerk of the Peace or Registrar shall cause to be prepared and inserted advertisements in accordance with such order, stating the time, place, and purpose of such sitting, and shall insert the same fourteen days previous to such sitting.

3. Upon the day so appointed, or at any adjourned sitting, the Clerk of the Peace or Registrar shall sit at the time and place appointed, and shall hear all parties interested, their counsel or solicitors.

4. When an order directs accounts to be taken, any books of account in which the accounts required to be taken, or any of them, have been kept, shall, unless the Judge shall otherwise direct, be taken as prima facie evidence of the truth of the matters therein contained, with liberty to the parties interested to take such objection thereto as they may be advised.

5. Every advertisement for creditors or other persons having any claim upon the interest of any person in the distribution of any assets to be administered by the Court which shall be issued pursuant to any order or decree, shall direct every such creditor or other person, by a time to be thereby limited, to send to the Clerk of the Peace or Registrar his name and address, and the full particulars of his claim or interest, and a statement of his account, and the nature of the security (if any) held by him; and at the time of directing such advertisement a time shall be fixed for adjudicating on the claims.

6. No such creditor or other person need make any affidavit, or attend in support of his claim, unless he is served with a notice requiring him so to do, as herein-after provided.

7. Every creditor shall produce to the Clerk of the Peace or Registrar any security held by him at such time as shall be