Chapter XXVII: Section 22: In every county wherein the population shall exceed one

hundred and fifty thousand the General Assembly shall, and in any
other county may, establish a separate orphans’ court to consist of
one or more judges who shall be learned in the law, which court shall
exercise all the jurisdiction and powers now vested in or which may
hereafter be conferred upon the orphans’ courts, and thereupon the
jurisdiction of the judges of the court of common pleas within such
county, in orphans’ court proceedings, shall cease and determine. In
any county in which a separate orphans’ court shall be established,
the register of wills shall be clerk of such court and subject to its
directions in all matters pertaining to his office; he may appoint
assistant clerks, but only with the consent and approval of said
court. All accounts filed with him as register or as clerk of the
said separate orphans’ court shall be audited by the court without
expense to parties, except where all parties in interest in a pending
proceeding shall nominate an auditor whom the court may, in its
discretion, appoint. In every county orphans’ courts shall possess
all the powers and jurisdiction of a registers’ court, and separate
registers’ courts are hereby abolished.

Style of Process.