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LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1781.

Boundaries
may be
erected,
&c.

the variation of the compass, Be U enacted, That the surveyor
may insert in any certificate any boundary, artificial or natural,
as being at the end of the distance expressed, provided he shall
actually measure such distance; and in case the length of the
line expressed in the certificate shall not reach the boundary,
and the line shall not have been actually run, on caveat against
grant issuing on such survey, the same shall be void, so far as
that the land which is excluded by running from the end of the
course and distance to the end of the next course and distance,
or to the next boundary, if any, shall be liable to be affected as
vacancy ; and before any grant shall issue on any certificate
expressing more than one boundary for the beginning, the
owner shall make oath or affirmation (as the case may be,) that
he knows or believes, that the distances mentioned in the certi-
Jlcate were actually run, and that no more land is contained by
the lines and boundaries than returned by the surveyor ; and
every surveyor, before he enters on the execution of his office,
shall swear, (or affirm,) that he will not mention any boundary
in his certificate of any survey, unless he shall actually run and
measure the distance to such boundary, and that the boundary
or boundaries by him returned shall be at the end of the Hue as
expressed, and that the certificate does not contain more land
than certified by him, to the best of his knowledge and belief.

The part of this section printed in italic was repealed by November,
1787, ch. 3.

List to be
made out,

&c.

SEC. 15. And be it enacted, That the register of the land
office for the western shore, annually, on or before the first day
of October, make out and transmit to the commissioners of the
tax of the several counties, a list of all grants, the name of the
grantees and land, and the quantity of acres, and the date of the
certificate and grant.

The provision in this section appears to be altered by 1797, ch. 89, sees.
37 and 39, which direct, that the registers shall annually, between the first
of January and the first of March, make out, for the commissioners of the
tax, a list of all certificates which have become ready for patent, Sec. and
shall forward them as public letters.

Certain
land not to
be taken
up, &c.

SEC. 16. And be it enacted, That no land adjoining to the
land lately belonging to the Principio company, or the Notting-
ham company, shall be taken up as vacancy, or affected by any
warrant to be taken out; and if any warrant has been taken out,
or certificate returned, to affect such land, no patent shall issue
thereon, but such vacancies, if any, adjoining to, or in any man-
ner interfering with, the land formerly belonging to the said com-
panies, or either of them, shall be reserved to this state, surveyed,
and sold for the purposes to which the property of the said com-
panies are respectively applied.