If the county clerk be absent, removed or dead, then any judge of the Superior Court may administer the oaths of office and allegiance to the persons, or any of them, required to take the same in and by section 41:2-11 of this Title. The judge shall report the name of the person to whom said oaths were administered, and the date thereof, to the said clerk or his successor, who shall enroll the same and transmit a copy of such enrollment to the Secretary of State, as is directed by section 41:2-12 of this Title.
N.J.S. § 41:2-13