Additional duties of clerk in absence of judge.
Section 607
SEC. 607. Additional duties of clerk in absence of judge. — In the absence of the judge, the clerk may perform all the duties of the judge in receiving applications, petitions, inventories, reports, and the issuance of all orders and notices that follow as a matter of course under the directions of the law, and may also, when directed so to do by the judge, receive the accounts of executors, administrators, and trustees, and all evidence appertaining to them, and offered on hearings in relation to them, or in relation to any other matters appertaining to the settlement of the estates of deceased persons, or guardianship, or trusteeship, and forthwith transmit such reports, accounts, and testimony of the judge, together with his findings in relation to the same, if the judge shall direct him to make findings, and include the same in his report.