THE PEOPLE of the State of New-York, To

KNOW YE, That we, having full faith in your prudence and competency, have appointed you Commissioners, and by these presents do authorize you, on either of you, to examine

as witness — in a cause pending in

defendant on the part of the
Commission, to take and certify the depositions of the witness — and return the same according to the directions hereunto annexed.

WITNESS,

the first mon day of each month one thousand eight hundred and

DIRECTIONS FOR EXECUTING THE COMMISSION.

THE persons to whom such commission shall be directed, or any one of them, unless otherwise expressly directed therein, shall execute the same as follows:

1. They or any one of them shall publicly administer an oath to the witnesses named in the commission, that the answers given by such witnesses to the interrogatories proposed to them, shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth:

2. They shall cause the examination of each witness to be reduced to writing, and to be subscribed by him, and certified by such of the commissioners as are present at the taking of the same:

3. If any exhibits are produced and proved before them, they shall be annexed to the depositions to which they relate, and shall in like manner be subscribed by the witness proving the same, and shall be certified by the commissioners:

4. The commissioners shall subscribe their names to each sheet of the depositions taken by them; they shall annex all the depositions and exhibits to the commission, upon which their return shall be endorsed; and they shall close them up under their seals, and shall address the same, when so closed, to the clerk of the court from which the commission issued, or to the clerk of the county in which the venue shall be laid, as shall have been directed on the commission, at his place of residence:

5. If there is a direction on the commission to return the same by mail, they shall immediately deposit the packet, so directed, in the nearest post-office:

6. If there be a direction on the commission to return the same by an agent of the party who sued out the same, the packet so directed shall be delivered to such agent.

The above is an extract from the Revised Statutes of the State of New-York, vol. 2. page 394, relating to the taking of testimony out of the State.