Preamble.
The County
Court, on
Petition, may
grant a Commission
to 4
Freeholders,
any Three or
Two of
which, being
first sworn, |
WHEREAS the Bounds of Land in this Province depend chiefly upon
marked Trees, which are subject to decay, or upon Bays,
Rivers, Creeks or Branches, the Names whereof do frequently
become obsolete or change; by which Means the true Bounds of such Lands,
(in process of Time) become doubtful, and cause tedious and chargeable
Law-Suits to the owners thereof, and very often the Loss of their Inheritance:
Wherefore for the more easy Examination of Evidences in perpetual
Memory, relating to Boundaries;
II. Be it Enacted,
by the Right Honourable the
Lord Proprietor, by and
with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor, and the Upper and
Lower
Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of the same, That
from and after the End
of this present Session of Assembly, upon the Petition of any Person seized
or possessed of Lands, in his own
or any other Right, to any of the several
County Courts within this Province, where the Land lies, for a Commission
to examine Evidences, to prove or perpetuate the Memory of any the
Bounds of such Lands, or of any other Lands whereon the Lands he shall
be
so seized or possessed of, shall depend, or whereto they relate, it shall
and
amy be lawful for the Justices of such County Court, as often as any such
Petition shall be to them preferred, to grant a Commission to Four substantial
and capable Free-holders within the said COunty, (not being any way related
to any of the Parties, nor interested in the Land,) impowering them or
any
Three or Two of them, (they having first taken an Oath before the said
County Court, or some Magistrate, duly and impartially to examine and certify
such Evidences,) to issue Summons for all such Evidences as shall be to
them nominated by the Petitioner, or other Person concerned, to appear
before |
