366 BOUNDING LANDS. [ART. 15

1888, art. 15, sec. 6. 1860, art. 15, sec. 6. 1786, ch. 33, sec. 2.

6. Upon proof being made to the satisfaction of the court,
that such advertisements were duly set up and notice given as
aforesaid, or upon the persons interested appearing, the court
may issue a commission to any five or three persons, agreed on
by all parties, empowering them, or a majority of them, to mark
and bound the land mentioned in such commission; but if the
persons interested, or any of them, shall not agree on the
persons for commissioners, the court shall appoint three or
five persons, skilled in land affairs, not interested in the lands
nor related to either of the parties, to whom a commission
shall issue as aforesaid.

Ibid. sec. 7. 1860, art. 15, sec. 7. 1786, ch. 33, sec. 3.

7. The said commissioners, or a majority of them shall give
notice of the time and purpose of their meeting, by advertise-
ments to be set up at the door of the court "house of their
county, and such other public places as they may judge most
effectual, thirty days at least before such meeting.

Ibid sec. 8. 1860, art. 15, sec. 8. 1786, ch. 33, sec. 3.

8. Each commissioner shall, before he proceeds in the
execution of the commission, otherwise than by giving such
notice and issuing summonses for witnesses as herein provided,
take an oath before a justice of the peace, or some other of
the commissioners, that he will settle and adjust the location
of the land mentioned in the commission, most agreeably to
the true original location thereof, according to the evidences
and circumstances which shall be offered or appear to him,
without favor, affection or partiality, according to the best of
his experience and judgment, and will make a true return
thereof.

Ibid. sec. 9. 1860, art. 15, sec. 9. 1786, ch. 33, sec. 4.

9. The said commissioners shall meet on the land agreeably
to the notice given by them, and may cause the lands men-
tioned in the commission, as well as any other lands they may
think proper, to be surveyed by the surveyor of the county, or
. such other skilful person as they shall think fit to appoint.

Ibid. sec. 10. I860, art. 15, sec. 10 1786. ch. 33, sec. 4.

10. Summonses for witnesses, may issue out of the court
issuing the commission, or by the said commissioners, or a