LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1792.

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NOVEMBER, 1792.— CHAPTER 15.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, an act to restrain surveyors, to re-
gulate certain proceedings in the land office, and to compel the attendance
of witnesses on surveys under the authority of the chancery, general
and county courts.

*1789, ch.
35.

WHEREAS it is just and reasonable that county surveyors,
seized of land at the time of their appointment, by purchase or
descent, and county surveyors who may become seized of land,
by descent or devise, after their appointment to said office,
should have equal power with other citizens to lake out common
and special warrants, and warrants of resurvey, on land whereof
they are or shall be so seized as aforesaid, and to take up any
vacant land thereunto adjoining; therefore,

Preamble.

SEC. 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland ,
That any person heretofore appointed, or who shall hereafter be
appointed, to the office of county surveyor, or deputy surveyor,
who, at the time of his said appointment, shall be seized of
land, either by descent or purchase, be and he is hereby autho-
rized and empowered to take out a common or special warrant,
or warrant or warrants of resurvey, on the land whereof he
was so seized at the time of his appointment as aforesaid, and,
by virtue thereof to take up any vacant land thereunto adjoin-
ing, and to have a patent issued for the same in the usual form.

Surveyors
seized of
land.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted. That any county surveyor, or
deputy surveyor, who shall become seized of land at any time
subsequent to his appointment to the said office, by descent or
devise, be and he is hereby authorized and empowered to take
out a warrant or warrants as aforesaid, on any land whereof he
shall so become seized by descent or devise, and, by virtue
thereof, to take up any vacant land thereunto adjoining, and to
have a patent issued in the usual form, any thing in any act or
law to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.

Or who
shall be
seized, may
take oat
warrants,

&c.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That all warrants taken out in the
cases herein before mentioned and provided for, shall be directed
to the county surveyor of any county adjacent to that county in
which the surveyor so as aforesaid applying for said warrant or
warrants shall reside; provided always, that the surveyor to
whom the said warrant or warrants shall be directed, shall,
before he executes the same, take the following oath, to be
endorsed on said warrant, to wit: 'I, A. B. do solemnly promise
and swear, that I will well and truly execute this warrant,
according to the best of my skill and judgment, without favour,
affection or partiality ; so help me God.'

To whom
warrants
shall be
directed,
&c.