614 SURVEYOR. [ART. 92.

ARTICLE XCII.
Surveyor

SEC. 1. The Surveyor for each county and the city of Balti-
more shall execute all warrants issued from the Land Office, and
all orders or warrants issued by any court having authority to
issue the same, and shall make return thereof within the time
prescribed by law.

2. He shall keep a regular alphabetical record of the Surveyor's
duplicate of all surveys or re-surveys made by him by virtue of
a warrant issued from the Land Office.

3. The books for that purpose shall be procured at the expense
and shall be the property of the county or city, and shall be kept
by the surveyor thereof, open to the inspection of all persons
who may desire to examine the same, and shall be handed down
to his successor in office.

4. Bach Surveyor may appoint a deputy or deputies.

5. Surveyors and their deputies may administer an oath to
their chain and pole carriers, carefully, without favor or par-
tiality, to carry the chain or pole, to the best of their knowledge,
whilst making a survey.

6. No person but a free white male person above the age of
twenty-one years shall be a chain or pole carrier.

7. On the execution of any warrant of re-survey from any of
the courts of this State, or the execution of any order of a court
of equity of this State to make a survey, the sheriff or coroner
shall summon the witnesses he may be directed to summon by
either party, and upon proof of such summons and non-attend-
ance of the witness made to the court from which the warrant
or order issued, such witness shall be adjudged in contempt of
the court, and attachment may issue as in other cases of con-
tempt.