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mentioned in the grant or deed, or whether by the loss of bounda-

ries called for the person seized is confined to course and distance,)

and any person seized of the reversion or remainder on an estate

for life or lives therein, may apply by petition in writing to the

county court for a commission to mark and bound such land, agree-

ably to the directions of this act — 1786, ch. 33, sec, 2, .

238

The county courts empowered to issue commissions for marking and

bounding lands held by lessees for life or for years, where the un-

expired term will amount to twenty-one years or upwards — 1808,

ch. 46, ............

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Such person must give two months notice of his intention, by adver-

tisement set up at the court-house door of the county, and at the

doors of the churches and other houses of public worship in the

hundred where such land lies — 1786, ch. 33, sec. 2, ...

238

The land must be named or otherwise described, in the advertisement

—1786, ch. 33, sec. 2, .........

238

He must also, thirty days before the meeting of the court, give notice

in writing to the persons holding the adjoining lands, if residing

thereon, or if absent, must leave such notice at their houses — 1786,

ch. 33, sec. 2, . ,......

238

If no person lives on the adjoining lands, notice must be given four

successive weeks in the Baltimore and Annapolis newspapers —

1766, ch. 33, sec. 2, . . . . . .

238

He must also give personal notice to the owner of the adjoining land,

or to his agent or attorney, if known and in the state, thirty days

before the meeting of the court -1786, ch. 33, sec. 2, .

239

The court on proof being made to their satisfaction that such adver-

tisements were duly set up and notice given, or on the other per-

sons interested appearing, may issue a commission to any five or

three persons, agreed on by all parties, empowering them to mark

and hound the land therein mentioned, according to the directions

of this act— 1786, ch. 33, sec. 2, .......

238

If any of the persons interested should not agree upon commissioners,

the court shall appoint three or five persons, .skilled in land affairs,

not interested or related to either of the parties, to whom a com-

mission shall issue — 1786, ch. 33, sec. 2,

238

Where divers persons hold separate parts of the same tract, they, or

any of them, may have a commission to mark and bound the whole

tract, and their particular parts thereof — 1786, ch, 33, sec. 8,

211

A person holding a younger survey, and thereby interested in the lo-

cation of interfering or neighbouring elder surveys, shall have a

commission to mark and bound such elder surveys, to have the

same effect as if he had been seized thereof — 1786, ch. 33, sec. 8,

241

Provided such person shall give notice in writing to the person seized

of such elder tract of his intention nine months before the petition,

and the person seized of the elder tract shall have neglected to ob-

tain a commission — 1786, ch. 33, sec. 8, .....

241

Where the same tract is held by different persons, and lies partly in

one county and partly in another, a commission may be obtained to