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the petition therefor, and the person seized of such elder tract
shall have neglected to apply and obtain a commission.

5. Any person entitled to lands as mentioned in the preceding
sections, and intending to apply for a commission to mark and
bound the same, shall give notice two months before the meet-
ing of the court at which he intends to make his application, by
advertisement set up at the court house door of the county, and
at two other public places in the district where such lands lie,
of his intention to apply to the court for a commission to mark
and bound his land, named or otherwise described in such adver-
tisement; and also give notice in writing to the persons holding
the adjoining lands, if residing thereon, or if absent, leaving such
notice at the houses of such persons thirty days before the meet-
ing of the court as aforesaid; and if no person lives on the
adjoining land, he shall give such notice by advertisement for
four successive weeks in some newspaper printed in the city of
Baltimore, and also give personal notice to the owner of the
adjoining land or to his agent or attorney, if known and in the
State, thirty days before the meeting of the court as aforesaid.

6. Upon proof being made to the satisfaction of the court that
such advertisements were duly set up and notice given as afore-
said, or upon the persons interested appearing, the court may
issue a commission to any five or three persons, agreed on by
all parties, empowering them, or a majority of them, to mark
and bound the land mentioned in such commission; but if the
persons interested, or any of them, shall not agree on the per-
sons for commissioners, the court shall appoint three or five per-
sons skilled in land affairs, not interested in the lands nor related
to either of the parties, to whom a commission shall issue as
aforesaid.

7. The said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall give
notice of the time and purpose of their meeting by advertise-
ments to be set up at the door of the court house of their county,
and such other public places as they may judge most effectual,
thirty days at least before such meeting.

8. Each commissioner shall, before he proceeds in the execu-
tion of the commission otherwise than by giving such notice and
issuing summonses for witnesses as herein provided, take an oath
before a justice of the peace, Or some other of the commissioners,
that he will settle and adjust the location of the land mentioned