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Adjournment of sessions on non-attendance of assistant barrister.
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8. [Recital.] In case it shall so happen that any assistant barrister shall not be in attendance to open such sessions on the day appointed for opening the same, or after having opened the same shall not continue his attendance until the business of such sessions shall be completed, it shall and may be lawful for any one justice of the peace for the county, or for the clerk of the peace or his deputy, in the absence of any justice, at the hour of five o’clock in the afternoon, and not before that hour, to open and adjourn, or to adjourn only, as the case may be, such sessions, and so from time to time and for such reasonable time as shall be sufficient for such Chancellor, Keeper, or Commissioner, to be informed of such illness or absence and to appoint some person to do the said duty, and for such person to repair to the place where such sessions should be held and take upon himself the execution of such duty.
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