PUBLIC GENERAL LAW.

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the same, one-third part of such fees as by this act are allowed to

the examiner-general — Nov. 1779, ch. 25, sec. 12,

154

On a commission to mark and bound land, the commissioners may

cause the land to be surveyed by the surveyor of the county, or

any other whom they may appoint — 1786, ch. 33, sec. 4,

239

They may administer an oath or affirmation to such surveyor — 1786,

ch. 33, sec. 4, p. 239; 1793, ch. 70, sec. 5, .

303

They may fix his allowance— 1786, ch. 33, sec. 7, .

241

If plots in actions of ejectment are not returned from the neglect of the

surveyor, or he is prevented by sickness or accident from returning

them, the courts may continue the actions — Nov. 1787, ch. 9,

sec. 4, ...........

247

If from neglect, the court may order him to pay the costs of the term,

and may fine him — Nov. 1787, ch. 9, sec. 4,

247

See Continuance.

County surveyors and their deputies restrained from taking up lands,

except in the cases therein mentioned — 1789, ch. 35, sec. 2, p. 254;

Nov. 1792, ch. 15, .........

285

Penally on their knowingly returning certificates contrary to this act

—1789, ch. 35, sec. 3, ........

254

County surveyors empowered, on an order from the chancery court, to

lay down lands for the illustration of any matter in the said court,

and to issue summonses for witnesses wanting on the said survey,

directed to the sheriff or coroner as required — 1789, ch. 35, sec. 6,

254

County surveyors or their deputies seized of land by descent or pur-

chase, empowered to lake up vacant land adjoining, and to get

patents in the usual form — Nov. 1792, ch. 15, sec. 2, 3,

285

The warrants to be executed by the surveyor of an adjacent county —

1792, ch. 15, sec. 4, .........

285

An affirmation by a quaker, &c. shall be as valid as an oalh, to qualify

him to act as a surveyor or chain-carrier under the act for marking

and bounding lands — 1793, ch. 70, sec. 5, . . . . .

303

Cases in which, on the death of a surveyor, the deputy is empowered

to sign the certificate — 1795, ch. 88, sec. 5, .

331

Cases in which a surveyor having resigned may make out and sign a

corrected certificate, and receive fees for the same — 1795, ch. 88,

sec. 6, ...........

331

Surveyors directed, in returning certificates thereafter, to express the

quantity and quality of the improvements contained on the land in-

cluded in the survey or resurvey, and subject to the operalion of

the warrant, with their opinions of the value of the same — 1795,

ch. 88, sec. 11, ..........

333

See Land and Land Office.

Directions to surveyors in executing warrants of escheat in cases of

tenancy in common — 1800, ch. 70, .......

431

Surveyors and their deputies, empowered to qualify their chain and

pole carriers — 1811, ch. 100, .......

603

When actions are removed to any county court, warrants of resurvey,

&c. may be issued to the county from which they are removed, to

be executed as in other cases — 1815, ch. 149, sec. 2,

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