N.Y. Real Property Actions & Proceedings Law § 1044: Report thereupon

§ 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.