ART. 35] BOUNDARIES—FOREIGN COMMISSIONS 1101

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 advertisement 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 Dis-
ney, 4 H. & McH. 156. Gittings' Lessee v. Hall, 1 H. & J. 14 Lowes v
Holbrook, 1 H. & J. 154. Gibson's Lessee v. Smith, 1 H. & J. 258. Ring-
gold v. Galloway's Lessee, 3 H. & J. 451.

1888, art. 35, sec. 32. 1860, art 37, sec. 31. 1723, ch. 8, sec 3.
34. All examinations of witnesses taken by the said com-
missioners shall be as good and available as if taken accord-
ing to the rules and practice of the courts of equity, notwith-
standing any defect or want of form or of filing or exhibiting
a bill.

Ibid. sec. 33. 1860, art. 37, sec. 32. 1723, ch. 8, sec. 6.
36. The said commissioners shall receive four dollars a day
for their services in taking such depositions and the witnesses
attending upon their summons the sum of one dollar per day
for each day they shall attend.

Commissions to Take Evidence from Other States.

Ibid sec. 34. 1860, art. 37, sec. 33 1841, ch. 107, sec. 1. 1862, ch. 147.
36. Whenever any commission, or process in the nature of
a commission, to take testimony shall be issued by any court
of any of the United States or by any court of any district or
territory of the United States directed to any person, either by
name or otherwise in this State, and any witness who shall
have been duly notified so to do shall fail to attend at the
execution of said commission or refuse to answer such ques-
tion as may be propounded to him under such commission, it
shall be the duty of the commissioner therein named, at the
request of either party to the suit in which it is proposed to
use such testimony, or his attorney, to certify such failure to
attend or refusal to testify to the circuit court for the county
or to any judge of the supreme bench of Baltimore city, as the
case may be, where said commission is to be executed; and the
said court or judge on receiving the said certificate shall forth-
with issue his order commanding the said delinquent witness