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71. Board to prepare form of bicycle li- cense; cost of license. 72. Bicycles only to be driven on sidepaths. 73. No animals to be driven on sidepaths. 74. Sidepaths not to be obstructed. 75. Directions for riding bicycles. 76. Sidepaths under control of county board subject to state board. 77. Board may remove limbs of trees. 78. State board to keep account of license fees. 79. How license fees used.

80. Penalty for violation of this sub-title. County Road Plans. 81. State roads commission to furnish on request. Lateral and Post Roads. 82-89. Loans for ; use of federal funds ; county funds. Bridges and Grade Crossings. 90-92. Loan of 1924, for.

Surveys, Returns and Certificates.

An. Code, sec. 1. 1904, sec. 1. 1888, sec. 1. 1849, ch. 549. 1908, ch. 480.

1. The surveyors for each county and the city of Baltimore shall exe-
cute all warrants issued from the land office, and all orders or warrants
issued by any court having authority to issue the same and shall make re-
turn thereof within the time prescribed by law. Whenever the surveyor
is incapacitated by sickness or any other cause from executing any warrant
or order issued to him from the land office or any court, or the surveyor
neglects or refuses to proceed with such warrant or order, any one inter-
ested in the execution and return of such warrant or order may petition
the commissioner of the land office or court for the appointment of a
deputy surveyor to execute the warrant, and the said commissioner of the
land office or court may, if necessary, appoint such deputy and issue a
duplicate warrant to such deputy; and such return or certificate shall
have the same effect as if executed by the surveyor:1

County surveyor may be ordered to survey lands in controversy. Andrews v.
Scotton, 2 Bl. 629.

A deputy surveyor has no authority to survey lands lying outside of his county.
Hammond v. Ridgely, 5 H. & J. 245.

As to admissibility of evidence to prove that a certificate of survey was forged,
see Boreing v. Singery, 4 H. & McH. 398; Boreing v. Singery, 2 H. & J. 455.

As to admissibility of evidence to contradict return of surveyor, see Carroll v.
Smith, 4 H. & J. 128; Hammond v. Norris, 2 H. & J. 130; Webb v. Beard, 1 H. & J.
349; Hammond v. Sheredine, 4 H. & McH. 420; Boreing v. Singery, 4 H. & McH. 398.

As to evidence as to where surveyor ran his lines, see Richardson v. Milburn,
17 Md. 71.

See notes to sec. 7.

An. Code, sec. 2. 1904, sec. 2. 1888, sec. 2. 1849, ch. 549, sec. 2.

2. He shall keep a regular alphabetical record of the surveyor's dupli-
cate of all surveys or re-surveys made by him by virtue of a warrant issued
from the land office.

An. Code, sec. 3. 1904, sec. 3. 1888, sec. 3. 1849, ch. 549, sec. 2.

3. The books for that purpose shall be procured at the expense and
shall be the property of the county or Baltimore city and shall be kept by

1 On secs. 1 to 18 of this article, see art. 54, " Land Office," secs. 25 to 44.