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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.

An. Code, sec. 4. 1904, sec. 4. 1888, sec. 3. 1849, ch. 549, sec. 3.

4. Each surveyor may appoint a deputy or deputies.

An. Code, sec. 5. 1904, sec. 5. 1888, 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.

An. Code, sec. 6. 1904, sec. 6. 1888, 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.

An. Code, sec. 7. 1904, sec. 7. 1888, sec. 7. 1789, ch. 35, sec. 7.

7. On the execution of any warrant 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 summon 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 admissibility in evidence of plots and depositions returned by 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.

An. Code, sec. 8. 1904, sec. 8. 1888, 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.

An. Code, sec. 9. 1904, sec. 9. 1888, 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.

An. Code, sec. 10. 1904, sec. 10. 1888, 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 the
cause or their counsel of record, unless a different time of notice shall be