DORSET v. HAMMOND.—1 BLAND. 439

convenience, be brought into Court, and lodged within reach of
the regular auditor. Clapham v. Thompson, ante, 123; Rutland v.
Yates and Petty, MS. 25th August, 1789. (c)

But the Chancellor has been authorized to appoint an auditor
during his pleasure. 1785, ch. 72, s. 17. This auditor is the cal-

(c) BIRCHFIELD v. VANDEEHEYDEN, 12th July, 1723.—After a commission to
account, which had been issued to commissioners at a distance from the
Court, had been returned without any tiling having been done, the plaintiff
moved " for another commission to some persons in Annapolis to audite the
same accounts for his more easy laying the accounts of the deceased before
them;" which was granted.—Ch. Rec. Lib. P. L. fol. 891.

DORSEY v. DULANY.—This bill was filed, 11th December, 1762, by the plain-
tiff against the administrator of his deceased partner, for an account, &c.
The complainant and defendant, by their counsel, consented and prayed
that a commission might issue to some persons to examine evidences and
audite accounts in relation to the said case; whereupon commissioners were
struck by the counsel of the parties in the usual manner, and a commission
issued accordingly, directed to the several persons therein named and
appointed, in the words following:

Maryland, Set.—Frederick, absolutely Lord and Proprietary of the Pro-
vince of Maryland, and Avalon. Lord Baron of Baltimoie, &c.: To Dr. John
Stevenson, Bryan Philpot of Baltimore County, Lancelot Jaques and George
Clark of Ann Arundel County, gentlemen, greeting: Know ye, that we
have nominated and appointed you, or any three or two of you to be our
commissioners to examine evidence; as also to audit, state, settle and adjust
all accounts in a certain cause depending in our High Court of Chancery,
between Caleb Dorsey of Ann Arundel County, iron master, complainant,
and Henrietta Maria Dulany, administrator de bonis non of Edward Dorsey,
Esq'r of the same county, defendant: We therefore require you or any
three or two of you, that at such time and place, as to you or any three or
two of you shall seem convenient, you cause to come before you or any
two of you all such evidences as shall be to you, or any three or two of
you named or produced 'by either the complainant or defendant; any and
also to state, audite, settle and adjust all accounts relating to the matter
in dispute that shall be produced to you, or any three or two of you, by
either of the parties, and that you examine them, and every of them, on
their corporal oaths to be by you administered on the Holy Evangelists, in
the presence of the said complainant and defendant, if they, having timely
notice thereof, think fit to be present, touching their knowledge of any
thing that may relate to the cause aforesaid; and that you reduce into writ-
ing such account as shall be stated and settled by you; and the same with
the said depositions you send together with this our commission under your
or any three or two of your hands and seals with all convenient speed to us
in our High Court of Chancery. Witness ourself at the City of Annapolis,
this 25th day of May, Anno Domini, 1763.

REVERDY GHISELIN, Reg. Cur. Can.

On the back of the aforegoing commission was thus endorsed, to wit.—
Baltimore County, October the 3d, 1763. Came the within named John
Stevenson, Bryan Philpot, Lancelot Jacques, and Corbin Lee, before me the
subscriber, one of his Lordship's Justices of the Peace for Baltimore County,
and severally made oath on the Holy Evangels, that they would well and
truly audit, and state all such accounts as should be by the within parties