430 ARTICLE 15.

An. Code, sec. 17. 1904, sec. 17. 1888, sec. 17. 1786, ch. 33, sec. 6.

17. If any person shall agree to settle and ascertain the location of
their lands, and fix boundaries to the same, such settlement and agreement,
and a plot of the lands so settled, may, by consent of the parties interested,
be recorded in the office of the clerk of the circuit court for the county, or
superior court of Baltimore city, and when recorded shall have the same
effect as if the location of such land had been settled by commissioners.

An. Code, sec. 18. 1904, sec. 18. 1888, sec. 18. 1786, ch. 33, sec. 7.

18. Each commissioner appointed by the court shall be entitled to two
dollars per day for each day he shall attend in the execution of the com-
mission ; any person acting as surveyor shall receive such per diem allow-
ance as shall be adjudged by the commissioners, not exceeding four dollars
per day; each chain carrier shall receive seventy-five cents, and each witness
fifty cents for each day they shall respectively attend, to be paid by the
person at whose request the service shall be performed, and if necessary,
attachment of contempt shall be issued by the court issuing the commis-
sion to compel such payment.