2014 New York Laws
RPA - Real Property Actions & Proceedings
Article 10 - (1001 - 1093) ACTION FOR DOWER
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.