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Commissioners may examine persons on oath, and receive affidavits, &c.
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92. It shall be lawful for the said commissioners for the execution of this Act, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, to examine upon oath or affirmation (which oath or affirmation they or any one of them are and is hereby authorized to administer) all persons who shall be willing to be examined touching all such matters and things as shall be necessary for the execution of the powers vested in the said commissioners by this Act, and also to receive any affidavits or depositions in writing, upon oath or affirmation, touching such matters or things as aforesaid, which shall be made before any justice of the peace of any county, or any magistrate of any city, borough, or town corporate in Ireland, where or near to which the person making such affidavit or deposition shall reside, and certified and transmitted to the said commissioners respectively under the hand and seal of such justice or magistrate; which oath or affirmation every such justice or magistrate shall be and is hereby authorized and empowered to administer; provided that in every such affidavit or deposition there shall be expressed the addition of the party making such affidavit or deposition, and the particular place of his or her abode.
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