Section XXII Persons being absent or beyond Sea, the Court, after Three Months, may determine.

And bee it enacted by the authoritie aforesaid That where any person or persons concerned in any of the demolished premisses is or shall be beyond the Seas, or cannot be found or summoned to appeare in the said Court, that upon the Complaint or Petition of the Partie agreived filed in the said Court for the space of three monethes or more, and Oath in Writeing made of the endeavour to summon such absent person or persons, That then the said Court shall or may after the end of the said three moneths proceede to heare and determine the said Cause; And that such Order, Judgement or Decree as the said Justices and Barons or any three or more of them shall make in such case shall be binding to such absent person or persons their Heires Executors Administrators and Assignes as if he or they were actually summoned and present at the makeing such Decree.