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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. 18.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 8. 1912, 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, 1924, sec. 9. 1912, 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, 1924, sec. 10. 1912, 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
prescribed by rule or order of the court issuing such warrant, or unless
notice be waived or agreed upon by the parties.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 11. 1912, sec. 11. 1904, sec. 11. 1888, sec. 11. 1800, ch. 70.

11. When warrants of escheat shall be delivered to a surveyor to exe-
cute in order to survey lands held in tenancy in common, and the part
only of one or more of the said tenants in common hath become liable to
escheat, the surveyor shall cause the whole of the said land so held in com-
mon to be surveyed, and a certificate thereof returned to the land office
specifying the value of the whole tract of land and improvements thereon;
and after the examination of the said certificate and payment to the trea-
surer of two-thirds of the value of the escheatable part of the land therein
expressed, a patent shall issue in due time to the party in whose name the
said certificate may be returned, or his heirs or assigns, for the undivided
portion of the land that may be liable to escheat.

Cited but not construed in Cunningham v. Browning, 1 Bl. 307.

An. Code, 1924, sec. 12. 1912, sec. 12. 1904, sec. 12. 1888, sec. 12. 1795, ch. 88, sec. 5.

12. If any warrant for surveying or re-surveying land shall issue and
the same shall be executed by a deputy of the surveyor authorized to
execute the same, and before a certificate of the survey or re-survey shall
be made out and signed by the said surveyor he shall die, the said deputy
may, within six months after such death, make out and sign a plot and
special certificate stating the circumstances of the case with an affidavit
of the truth thereof annexed or endorsed, and the said certificate shall be
as good and effectual as if made out and signed by the said surveyor: and
if any amendment or correction of the said plot or certificate shall be
necessary, the amendment or correction shall be made by the said deputy
or such other person as the commissioner of the land office shall think
proper.