The necessary chainmen shall be employed by the person wanting surveying done, but they shall be good and disinterested persons, to be approved by the surveyor, and shall be sworn by the surveyor to measure justly and exactly, according to the best of their abilities.Rev. Stat., ch. 40, § 17; C. & M. Dig., § 1900; Pope's Dig., § 2417; A.S.A. 1947, § 12-1204.
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