Delaware General Assembly

CHAPTER 449.

OF THE COURT OF CHANCERY.

AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE CHANCELLOR TO APPOINT MASTERS IN CHANCERY, AND TO PROVIDE RULES TO REGULATE PRACTICE RELATING THERETO.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Delaware in General Assembly met:

Section 1. The Chancellor shall have authority in any cause pending in the Court of Chancery of this State to appoint a master in Chancery, pro hac vice in such particular cause.

Section 2. The Chancellor shall have authority and power to make and promulgate rules regulating the duties and compensation of masters in Chancery so appointed, and regulating the practice in all particulars relating to such, Masters in Chancery. The compensation of such Masters in Chancery shall be paid under said rules of Court by the parties to said causes in which they are appointed.

Section 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

Approved March 24, A. D. 1903.