§ 1044. Report thereupon. All the commissioners must meet together in
the performance of any of their duties; but the acts of a majority so
met are valid. The referee, or the commissioners, or a majority of them,
must make a full report of their proceedings, specifying therein the
manner in which they have discharged their trust, with the items of
their charges, and a particular description of the portion admeasured
and laid off to the plaintiff; or, if they report that it is not
practicable, or, in their opinion, it is not for the best interests of
all the parties concerned, to admeasure and lay off a distinct parcel of
the property of which dower is to be admeasured, they must state the
reasons for that opinion and all the facts relating thereto. The report
must be acknowledged or proved, and certified, in like manner as a deed
to be recorded, and must be filed in the office of the clerk.