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Lord chancellor of Ireland may appoint persons to examine witnesses and take answers and affidavits, &c. of persons in England and Scotland as to suits depending in the Court of Chancery in Ireland.
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1. It shall be lawful for the lord high chancellor of Ireland or other person or persons having the custody of the great seal of Ireland for the time being to appoint and they are hereby respectively authorized and empowered to appoint one or more fit and proper person and persons to swear and examine in England and Scotland witnesses who shall be produced before such person or persons in England or Scotland to be sworn and examined in suits depending in the Court of Chancery in Ireland as a court of equity, and to take in England or Scotland answers, pleas, and demurrers of defendants in such suits, and affidavits of parties and others in such suits, in such and the same manner as the masters in ordinary of the said Court of Chancery may swear and the examiner of the said court may examine such witnesses, and as the said masters may take such answers, pleas and demurrers, and such affidavits, according to the practice of the said court.
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