General
Vaughan versus Blanchard
2 U.S. 1922 Dall. 192·Supreme Court of Pennsylvania·1792·PA
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Opinion
Vaughan versus Blanchard.
HEATLY offered to read the return, on a commission to examine witnesses, in which it was certified, that the witnesses were duly sworn by a Justice of the Peace, and examined by the commissioners. Serjeant, objected, that the commissioners themselves should have administered the oath ; or that if administered by a Justice of the Peace, he should himself have certified the fact. But,
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By the Court
:—It is not necessary that the commissioners should administer the oath themselves; and it is to be presumed, that it was administered in their presence.