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such evidences upon their corporal oaths, to be administered by
such commissioners, of their knowledge concerning the several
bounds of such lands, and carefully to reduce what the evidences
shall declare, into writing, in the presence of all the parties con-
cerned that shall be there present, and return the same to the

said court to be recorded in perpetual memory.

Howell's Lessee v. Tilden, 1 H. & McH 84. Crow's Lessee v. Scott, 1 H. &
McH. 182. Rock v. Giles, 1 H. & McH 186. Bladen's Lessee v. Cockey, 1 H.
& McH 230. Cage's Lessee e Courts, 1 H. & McH 239. Llewellin's Lessee
v. Fendall, 1 H. & McH 240. Bedding's Lessee v. McCubbin, 1 H. & McH
368. Long's Lessee v. Fellett, 1 H. & McH 531. Johnson's Lessee v. Kra-
mer, 2 H. & McH 243. Emmitt v. Young, 3 H & McH 122. Weems' Lessee

v. Disney, 4 H. & McH. 156 Nclm's Lessee v. Smith, 4 H & McH 389.
Lowes v. Holbrook, 1 H & J 153. Davis' Lessee v. Batty, 1 H & J 264.
Tolley's Lessee v. Ford, 1 H. & J 413 Pattison's Lessee v. Chew, 1 H. & J.
586, (note a ) Tenant v. Hambleton, 3 H. & J 233. Stewart's Lessee v.
Mason, 3 H & J. 507. Green v. McClellan, 4 H & J. 200. Bowie v. O'Neale,
5 H & J 226 Stoddert's Lessee o Manning, 2 H & G 147. Roger's Lessee
v. Raborg, 2 G. & J. 54.

P G L., (1860,) art 87, sec. 30 1723, ch 8, sec 4.

31. 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 county, they shall cause such notice to be given by adver-
tisement in some newspaper, forty days before such meeting, and

shall return a certificate of having given such notice with the
examination of the witnesses.

Johnson's Lessee v. Kramer, 2 H. & McH. 243 Weems' Lessee v. Disney,

4 H. & McH. 156. Gittings' Lessee o Hall, 1 H. & J 14 Lowes v. Holbrook,
1 H. & J. 154. Gibson's Lessee v. Smith, 1 H. & J. 258. Ringgold v. Gallo-
way's Lessee, 3 H. & J. 451.

Ibid, sec 31. 1723, ch 8, sec. 3.

32. 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.