254 Assembly Proceedings, April 26-June 3, 1715.

C. P.

Designe of Ancient surveys such as the Governour And Coun-
cill for the time being shall see proper shall be Commissioned
and Impowered Under the Great Scale used in this province
by the Governour for the time being who by Vertue thereof
And the Authority of this Act shall or may with or without

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Adjournment from time to time meet and Sumarily and with-
out the formalities of Proceedings Used in Courts of Law or
Equity by Testimony of Witnesses Upon Oath Examination
of Parties Interested or by all or Any of the said ways or
Otherwise att their Discretions from time to time to hear and
Determine all Differences and Controverses which hereafter
shall or may happen in their severall and respective Countys
between any persons therein of or touching or Concerning
the bounds of And meets of Land only which said Com-
missioners shall take the following Oath. I. A. B. Doe
Swear that I will Justly and truely Execute the powers and
Authorities in this Act Contained and According to the best
of my knowledge without flavour or Affection to any of the
parties Concerned. So help me God.
And for that it may be highly Necessary that Certaine times
be Appointed for the said Commissrs to meet att a Certaine
place whereto all persons aggrieved may repair to make
Application for redress,
Be itt Enacted by the Authority afd that the said Commissrs
shall Appoint Certaine Days and make publication thereof
whereon to meet att the Court house in each respective County
att which day and place the said Commissioners or any three

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ior mure of them upunComplaint made by Any person touch-

ing any Difference or Dispute Concerning the bounds or
Limitts of any tract or tracts of Land or part or parcell of
any Tract or Tracts of Land Lying and being within their
respective Counties shall Appoint a Certaine day or days on
which the said Commissioners or any three of them att the
Least not being any wise related to Either Complainant or
Defendant either by Consanguinity or Affinity or any ways
Interested in such Dispute Unless by Mutuall Consent of both
the said parties shall goe upon the Land in Dispute and View
and Consider the premisses. And for the better Enableing
the said Commissrs to proceed with Effect in the said Causes,
Be itt further Enacted by the Authority afd that upon a
petition or Complaint made to the said Commissioners in
writing by any person or persons any ways Concerned in such
Disputable bounds that itt shall and may be Lawfull for any
one of the said Commissioners to grant sumons in writeing
to be Directed to the party or parties therein mentioned and
also to any witness and witnesses or his Majestys Surveyor