ART. 47. ] INHERITANCE.

be to them named by the petitioner or other person concerned, to
appear before them at a certain day by them to be appointed, upon
the lands, the boundaries whereof are to be proved or perpetuated,
and to examine all such evidences upon their corporal oaths, to be
administered by such commissioners, of their knowledge concern-
ing the several bounds of such lands, and carefully to reduce what
the evidences shall declare into writing in the presence of all the
parties concerned that shall be there present, and return the same
to the said court to be recorded in perpetual memory.

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20. The said commissioners before their meeting on such land,
where all the parties concerned live in the county, or where they
are not known, shall cause public notice of such meeting and the
object thereof, to be set up in the most public places in the county,
at least twenty days before such meeting, and where all the persons
interested are known and any one of them lives out of the count}',
they shall cause such notice to be given by advertisement in some
newspaper, forty days before such meeting, and shall return a cer-
tificate of having given such notice with the examination of the
witnesses.

Id 8 30.
1724, c 8, 8 4.
Commissioners
to give notice
2H & McH 243,
1 H & J 258
3 H & J. 451;

21. All examinations of witnesses taken by the said commis-
sioners shall be as good and available as if taken according to the
rules and practice of the courts of equity, notwithstanding any
defect or want of form, or of filing or exhibiting a bill.

Id s 31
1723, c 8, s 3.
Examinations
as available as
if taken under
rules of courts
of equity

22. The said commissioners shall receive four dollars a day for
their services in taken such depositions, and the witnesses attending
upon their summons the sum of one dollar per day for every day
they shall attend.

ARTICLE XLVII.
INHERITANCE.

DESCENTS.

Id s 32
1723, c 8, s 6
Pay of commis-
sioners.

1 What lands shall descend.
2 How to descend
3 How when derived from the father
4 Same
5 Same
6 Same.
7 Same.
8 Same.
9 Same.
10 Same
11 How when derived from the mother.
12. Same.
13 Same
14 Same.
15 Same.
16 Same
17. Same

18 Same
19 How if acquired by purchase.
20 Same
21 Same.
22 Same
23 Same
24 When trusts to descend as at common
law.
23 Posthumous collaterals not to take.
26 Half blood
27. When representation allowed
28 Estates tail, special heirs, right of dower.
29 When children born out of wedlock may
take.
30 Illegitimate children.
31 Advancement.