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Officers shall proceed in accounts, inquiries, &c. peremptorily on the first summons.
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63. On any account or inquiry or other matter whatsoever, which shall be referred to or shall be depending before any officer of any of the said several courts, or which such officer shall have authority or power to proceed in or to determine or report upon, and for, upon, or relative to which it shall be necessary or proper to summon any party or parties or person or persons whomsoever, such officer shall proceed peremptorily on the first summons which shall appear to him to have been duly served, and shall, at the time and place appointed in such summons, hear the parties, if they shall attend, and, if only one party shall attend, and the other party shall make default, and no sufficient excuse for such default shall be laid before such officer, he shall then proceed ex parte, in like manner as such officer would, according to the practice heretofore used, have proceeded upon a third or peremptory summons; and the proceedings, report, or decision of such officer upon such account, inquiry, or other matter whatsoever, shall be subject to the order, direction, and controul of the court in all respects as heretofore.
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