ART. 16. ] LAND office.

rant and such warrant may be in the form heretofore used in the
Land Office, and may be either a common warrant, a special warrant,
a warrant of resurvey, a proclamation warrant, or an escheat war-
rant, whichever may be suited to the case of the party applying for
the same.

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19. If the vacant land or land which has escheated lies partly
in one county and partly in another, the wan ant to survey the
same may be directed to and executed by the surveyor of either
county.

Art 54, s 18
Where vacant
or escheat lands
in different
counties

20, Any person may obtain a common warrant, special warrant
or proclamation warrant by applying to the commissioner of the
Land Office, and paying him (unless the land lies in Alleghany or
Washington counties) the sum of twenty-five cents per acre for
each acre mentioned in such warrant, and if the land lies in Alle-
ghany county, the sum of ten cents per acre, and if the land lies in
Washington county, the sum of twelve and a half cents per acre.

1811, 0 3, s 2
Common, spe-
cial or procla-
mation war-
rants, pay for
33 Md 95

21. Any person being the owner in fee simple of any lands, may
obtain, by application to the commissioner of the Land Office, a war-
rant of resurvey to resurvey said land, whether the same consists
of one or several tracts or parts of tracts, and add any contiguous
vacancy thereto.

Art 54 s 20
Warrant of re-
survey and add-
ing contiguous
vacancy.

22, Any person entitled to lands in fee simple, and being in
possession thereof and not desiring to add contiguous vacancy,
may obtain a warrant of resurvey from the Land Office, and it shall
not be necessary in such warrant to state the name of the tract or
tracts of land to be resurveyed, and the surveyor of the county
to 'whom such warrant shall be directed shall survey the lands to be
affected thereby, according to the possession and holding of the
person obtaining such warrant, or those under whom he claims for
the last twenty years, and shall take proof of such possession and
holding.

Id s 21
1839, c 34, s 1.
1841, c 338,
1854, C 322 S 1,
Warrant of re-
survey without
adding contigu-
ous vacancy
1 Md. 52, 6 Md
237.

23, The surveyor, before he executes any warrant issued under
the preceding section, shall give reasonable notice to the owners
and occupiers of all the adjacent lands, if the same be occupied,
if the owners reside in the county where the lands lie, and if the
adjacent lands be occupied or unoccupied, and the owners do not
reside in the county, the surveyor shall give notice of the time he
will execute such warrant by advertisement in some daily news-
paper published in the city of Baltimore, not less than six times,
and the first publication to be at least two mouths before the execu-
tion of such warrant.

Id s 22
1854. c 322, s 2
Notice of exe-
cution to be
given

2 4. The surveyor shall return to the Land Office, within one year
from the date of such warrant, a certificate of survey and plot, to-
gether with the depositions relating to the possession and occu-
pancy of the lands resurveyed, and proof of the notice, by publica-
tion or otherwise, given to the owners or occupiers of the adjacent
lands, and upon the return of such certificate and proofs, if no

Id s 23.
1854, c 322, s 3
When and how
certificate to be
returned.