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ing of said land, he shall make oath, or affirmation, (as
the case may be,) before some justice of the peace, that he
will settle and adjust the boundaries of the land owned by
the proprietors of the Susquehannah Canal, according to
the evidence and circumstances which shall be offered or
appear to him, according to the best of his skill and judg-
ment, and will make a true return thereof.
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CHAP. 59
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Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That the said commissioners,
or a majority of them, may issue summonses for witnesses,
and such witnesses, when summoned, shall attend under the
same penalties as if they had been summoned by the coun-
ty court, to be inflicted by the said commissioners, or a ma-
jority of them; and the said commissioners, or a majority
of them, may cause the surveyor of the county, or such
fliher skilful persons as they may think fit to appoint, to
make such surveys as they may think necessary to deter-
mine the location of the boundaries of the land owned by
the proprietors of the Susquehannah canal, first administering
an oath or affirmation, (as the case may be,) to the survey-
ors, and also to the chain-carriers, to execute their respec-
tive duty of surveyor, or chain-carrier, (as the case may. be,)
faithfully and impartially, to the best of their skill, and also
administering to each and every witness an oath, or affirma-
tion, (as the case may be,) that the evidence which such
witness shall give, shall be the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth; and the said commissioners, or any
two or more of them, may adjourn from time to time, as
they may think necessary; and the said commissioners, or a
majority of them, or the major part of such majority met,
concurring in opinion, may and shall cause the land by them
adjudged to the proprietors of the Susquehannah Canal, to
be marked and bounded, either by calls, or by courses and
distances, and shall mark and set up boundaries at the end
of all lines where course and distance only are given, ac-
cording to their adjudication and location thereof; and after
the said commissioners have marked and bounded the said
land they shall make up and transmit to the clerk of Cecil
county court, a return of their proceedings, containing a
description of the location by metes and bounds, or courses
and distances, of the land adjudged to the proprietors of the
Susquehannah canal, together with a certificate, under the
hands and seals of the commissioners, or under the hands
and seals of a majority of them, that such location was duly
made according to law; and the said return and certificate
shall be prima facie evidence of the correctness of the
in six months after the said return shall have been received
by the clerk of Cecil county, exceptions in writing are filed
thereto, the said return shall be recorded among the land re
cords of said county, and shall be conclusive against all per
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Witnesses may be
summoned
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