The surveyor shall administer an oath or affirmation to the chain-carriers to faithfully and diligently perform their duties without fear, favor, affection or partiality. The surveyor shall write the name of each of the chain-carriers on his plat, or on the certificate of survey, and he is authorized to administer all oaths which may be necessary in the prosecution or completion of any survey.
Miss. Code Ann. § 19-27-9
Swearing the chain-bearers
Codes, Hutchinson’s 1848, ch. 31, art 1 (7); 1857, ch. 6, art 170; 1871, § 276; 1880, § 383; 1892, § 4394; 1906, § 4959; Hemingway’s 1917, § 7742; 1930, § 7144; 1942, § 4273.
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