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warrant; and such warrant may be in the form heretofore used
in the Land Office, and may be either a common or a special
warrant, a proclamation or escheat warrant, or a warrant of re-
survey, as may be best suited to the case of the party applying
for the same.

18. If the vacant land or land which has escheated lies partly
in one county and partly in another, the warrant to survey the
same may be directed to and executed by the surveyor of either
county.

19*. Any person may obtain a common warrant, a special
warrant or proclamation warrant for all kinds of public or unap-
propriated lands of this State, by applying to the Commissioner
of the Land Office, and by paying the said commissioner the usual
fees and charges; Provided, however, that no patent shall issue
on the return of said warrant and the accompanying certificate
of the surveyor, unless the sum of fifty cents per acre be paid
the said commissioner before issuing the same, unless the land
lies in Allegany or Washington counties; and in that case no
patent shall issue unless twenty cents per acre for all land in
Allegany, and twenty-five cents for all lands in Washington
county, be previously paid.

20. Any person being the owner in fee simple of any lands,
may obtain, by application to the Commissioner of the Land
Office, a warrant of re-survey to re-survey said land, whether
the same consists of one or several tracts or parts of tracts, and
add any contiguous vacancy thereto.

21. Any person entitled to lands in fee simple, and being in
possession thereof and not desiring to add contiguous vacancy,
may obtain a warrant of re-survey from the Land Office, and it
shall not be necessary in such warrant to state the name of the
tract or tracts of land to be re-surveyed, and the surveyor of the
county to whom such warrant shall be directed shall survey the
lands to be affected thereby, according to the possession and
holding of the person obtaining such warrant, or those under
whom he claims for the last twenty years, and shall take proof
of such possession and holding.

22. The surveyor, before he executes any warrant issued under
the preceding section, shall give reasonable notice to the owners
and occupiers of all the adjacent lands, if the same be occupied,