710 LAND OFFICE. [ART. 51

ARTICLE LIV.

LAND OFFICE.

Commissioner—Powers and Duties.

31. Notice to. owners or occupants of adjacent lands prior to survey.

Commissioner—Powers and Duties.

1904, art. 54, sec. 31. 1888, art. 54, sec. 29. 1860, art. 54, sec. 22. 1854, ch. 322,

sec. 2. 1912, ch. 595.

31. The surveyor before he executes any warrant issued under the
preceding section (30) shall give thirty days' notice to the owners or
occupants of all the adjacent lands, if the same be occupied, and if the
same be not occupied and any of the owners do not reside in the county
or city where the lands lie, then to the owners of the said adjacent
lands, who may reside in the county or city where the lands lie, and if
the adjacent lands be occupied and the owners do not reside in the
county or city, the surveyor shall give at least one month's notice prior
to the time of the beginning of the survey by publication in some news-
paper of the county, or city of Baltimore, in which the said lands may
be situated,' of at least two consecutive week insertions; said notice
shall contain a. description of the alleged land as stated in the said
warrant, and if the surveyor shall for any reason fail to make the sur-
vey on the day named in the publication or notice he may proceed to
do so at any time within thirty days after the expiration of the said
notice, by posting three written notices on the land, proposed to be
located and surveyed by him, at least five days before proceeding to
make the said survey; and in the certificate of survey, the. surveyor
shall certify to the Land Office to the publication or giving of notice
as aforesaid.

50.*+

See article 7, sections 4 and 5, of the Md. Constitution.

*The act of 1914, chapter 57, provides for the further publication of the arch-
ives of Maryland; see also the act of 1912, chapter 15.

+The act of 1912, chapter 440, provided for the removal of certain old records
from the court house of Anne Arundel County to the State Land Office.