The commissioners or assistant commissioner acting in the matter of any inclosure, or in any inquiry into the expediency or inexpediency of any proposed inclosure, where they or he may see fit, may order such expenses of witnesses, and of the production of any books, deeds, court rolls, and writings, maps, plans, and surveys, or copies thereof, and all other expences (except the salary or allowance to any assistant commissioner) incurred in the settlement of any suit or difference, or in the hearing and determining any objection or matter whatever before the said commissioners or any assistant commissioner, to be paid by such parties interested in the production thereof respectively, or in the event of such suit, difference, objection, or matter, or in any such inquiry, by or in such proportions as the commissioners or assistant commissioner shall think fit and reasonable; and the commissioners may, when they shall see occasion, require such security to be given by persons making application for any inquiry under this Act, for the payment by such persons of the expences of or occasioned by such inquiry, as the commissioners may think fit.