39 Pa. Stat. § 287
The petition aforesaid shall set forth all the matters required to be set forth by the ninth section of the act of June 16, 1836, entitled "An act relating to insolvent debtors," and shall be verified in like manner. Upon the presentation of the said petition, te court or judge shall fix a time for the hearing of the same, which shall be during the next session of the court of common pleas: Provided, Thirty days shall intervene between the presentation of the petition and the time for hearing the same, and the petitioner and his creditors shall be heard before the judges of the court of common pleas, unless the said court shall make an order that a single judge shall hear the case and decide it, in which case the judge shall have all the powers herein conferred upon the court.
39 P.S. § 287