66 BOUNDING LANDS. [ART. 15.

ARTICLE XV.
Bounding Lands.

SEC. 1. Any commission authorized by this article may be
issued by the Circuit Court for the county where any part of
the land lies, or if the land or part of it lies in the city of Balti-
more, it may be issued by the Superior Court for Baltimore city;
and the word county as used in this article shall include the city
of Baltimore.

2. Any person or body corporate entitled to any estate of
inheritance in lands in possession, remainder or reversion, or
having a life estate therein, or an estate for years by a lease
having twenty-one years to run, duly executed and recorded, if
such lands are described by courses and distances only as to any
of the lines thereof in the grant or deed under which they are
held, or if any of the bounds called for are lost, may have a com-
mission to mark and bound such lands by complying with the
provisions of the following sections.

3. In all cases where the same tract is held by different
persons and lies partly in one county and partly in another, or
partly in this State and partly in an adjoining State, any person
interested may have a commission to mark and bound the whole
tract when lying wholly in this State and also his particular
part; and when lying partly in this State and partly in an adjoin-
ing State, any citizen of this or of any of the United States may
have a commission to mark and bound such part as shall lie
within this State.

4. Where several persons hold separate parts of one and the
same tract, they, or any of them, may have a commission as
well to mark and bound the whole tract as their particular parts
thereof, and where any person holds a younger survey, and is
thereby interested in the location of interfering or neighboring
elder surveys, he shall be entitled to a commission to mark and
bound any such elder survey, if the person, or some one of the
persons applying for the commission, shall have given notice in
writing to the person seized of such elder tract, of his or their
intention of applying for such commission nine months before