1978 SURVEYOR AND STATE SURVEY. [ART. 91

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.

1904, art. 91, sec. 4. 1888, art. 91, sec. 3. 1860, arb. 92, sec. 4. 1849, ch. 549, sec. a.

4. Each surveyor may appoint a deputy or deputies.

Ibid. sec. 5. 1888, art. 91, sec. 5. 1860, art 92, sec. 5. 1811, ch. 100.

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

Ibid. sec. 6. 1888, art. 91, sec. 6. 1860, art. 92, sec. 6. 1811, ch. 100.

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

Ibid: sec. 7. 1888, art. 91, sec. 7. 1860, art. 92, sec. 7. 1789, ch. 35, sec. 7.

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

The county surveyor may be ordered to survey lands in controversy and
to take depositions and return plots. Andrews v. Scotton, 2 Bl. 629. See
also, Cunningham v. Browning, 1 Bl. 319.

As to the admissibllity in evidence of plots and depositions returned by
the surveyor, see Chisholm v. Perry, 4 Md. Ch. 32; Carroll v. Smith, 4 H. &
J. 128; Steuart v. Mason, 3 H. & J. 507.
See notes to sec. 1.
See art 35, sec. 13.

Ibid. sec. 8. 1888, art. 91, sec. 8. 1860, art. 92, sec. 8. 1847, ch. 329.

8. The surveyors of the several counties and the city of Baltimore
shall insert in every certificate of survey or re-survey returned to the
land office the course and distance of the given or closing line in every
such survey or re-survey.

Ibid. sec. 9. 1888, art. 91, sec, 9. 1860, art. 92, sec. 9. 1795, ch. 88, sec. 11.

9. In returning certificates to the land office the surveyor shall
state the quantity and quality of the improvements on the land
included in the survey or re-survey and subject to the operation of the
warrant with his opinion of the value of the same.

Cited but not construed in Cunningham v. Browning, 1 Bl. 317.

Ibid. sec. 10. 1888, art. 91, sec. 10. 1860, art. 92, sec. 10. 1841, ch. 108.

10. No warrant of re-survey issued from any of the courts of this
State shall be executed until after ten days' notice to the parties in