ART. 15] BOUNDING LANDS. 333

ARTICLE XV.

BOUNDING LANDS.

1. What court to issue commission. 2. Who entitled to commission. 3. When land lies in this or adjoining State or in adjoining counties. 4. Separate parts of same tract. 5. Notice of proposed commission ; how given. 6. How commission to be issued. 7. Notice of meeting of commissioners. 8. Oath of commissioners. 9. Meeting of commissioners. 10. Summons for witnesses.

11. Attachment for non-attendance. 12. Oath to surveyor and chain-carriers. 13. Depositions of witnesses. 14. Marking boundaries; plats and cer- tificates. 15. When record conclusive : qualifica- tions. 10. Lines fairly agreed on not to be varied. 17. Lines and boundaries agreed on may be recorded. 18. Compensation of commissioners.

1904, art. 15, sec. 1. 1888, art. 15, sec. 1. 1860. art. 15. sec. 1. 1786, ch. 33. sec. 2.

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 Baltimore, it may be issued by
the superior court of Baltimore city; and the word county, as used in
this article, shall include the city of Baltimore.

Ibid. sec. 2. 1888. art. 15, sec. 2. 1860. art. 15, sec. 2. 1786, ch. 33. sec. 2.
1787, ch. 22, sec. 2. 1808. ch. 46. sec. 2

2. Any person or body corporaate, entitled to any estate of inherit-
ance 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 commission to mark and bound such lands by
complying with the provisions of the following sections.

Ibid. sec. 3. 1888, art. 15. sec. 3. 1860. art. 15. sec. 3. 1793. ch. 70. sec. 4.

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 adjoining 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.

As to commissions to perpetuate boundaries, see art. 35. sec. 32. et seq.
As to the land office, see art. 54.