1100 EVIDENCE. [ART. 35

Commissions to Perpetuate Boundaries of Lands.

1888, art. 35, sec. 30. 1860, art. 37, sec. 29. 1723, ch 8, sec. 2

32. Upon petition of any person seized or possessed of
lands in his own or any other right to the circuit court for the
county where the land lies, or the superior court of Baltimore
city, if the land lies in the city of Baltimore, for a commission
to examine evidences to prove or perpetuate the memory of any
of the bounds of such lands, or of any other hinds whereon
the lands he shall be so seized or possessed of shall depend
or whereto they relate, the court to which such petition shall
be preferred may grant a commission to four substantial and
capable freeholders within the said county or city, not being in
any way related to any of the parties or interested in the land,
empowering them, or any three or two of them, (they having
first taken an oath before the said court or some justice of the
peace, duly and impartially to examine and certify such evi-
dences), to issue summons for all such evidences as shall 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 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 concerned 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 v. Courts, 1 H. & McH. 239. Llewellin's
Lessee v. Fendall, 1 H. & McH. 240. Redding's Lessee v. McCubbin, 1 H.
& McH. 368. Long's Lessee v. Pellett, 1 H. & McH. 531. Johnson's Lessee
v. Kramer, 2 H. & McH. 243. Emmitt v. Young, 3 H. & McH. 122. Weems'
Lessee v. Disney, 4 H. & McH. 156. Nelm'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 v. Manning, 2 H. & G. 147.
Roger's Lessee v. Raborg, 2 G. & J 54.

Ibid sec. 31. 1860, art 37, sec 30. 1723, ch. 8, sec. 4.

33. The said commissioners, before their meeting on such
land, where all the parties concerned live in the county, or