CONSTITUTION—ART. VII. 185

TITLE XL
Surveyor.

CONSTITUTION—ARTICLE VII—SEC. 2.
ARTICLE 17. SURVEYOR.

CONSTITUTION—ARTICLE VII —SEC. 2.

Surveyor Vacancy.

THE qualified voters of each county, and of the city of Baltimore, shall, on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in the month of November, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven, and on the same day in every second year thereafter, elect a surveyor for each county and the city of Baltimore, respectively, whose term of office shall commence on the first Monday of Jan- uary next ensuing their election; and whose duties and compensation shall be

1852, c 50 Surveyor

the same as are now, or may hereafter be prescribed by law And any vacancy in the office of surveyor, shall be filled by the commissioners of the counties or by the mayor and city council of Baltimore, respectively, for the residue of the term. ARTICLE XVII. SURVEYOR.

Vacancy

1. To execute warrants from Land Office and orders, etc, issued by courts 2 To keep record of surveys 3 Expense of books. 4 Deputies 5 To administer oath to chain and pole car- riers 6 Who may be chain or pole carrier 7 To summon witnesses on surveys, attend- ance, how compelled. 8 To insert course and distance of closing lines in certificate of survey 9 To return value and improvement on land in certificate of survey 10 Notice of warrant of resurvey

11 To survey whole tract under escheat war- rant for portion of a tenant in common, to return certificate, patent for undi- vided portion 12 When certificate returned by deputy after death of surveyor 13 Order for correction when surveyor re- signs without correcting the same, fees. 14 Vacant land, when warrant to issue 15 Oath of surveyor executing warrant 1G Neglect to return plots, fine. 17 What, liable to pay to commissioner for returning erroneous certificate 18. Not to mention boundaries without run- ning and measuring distances

1. The surveyor for each county and the city of Baltimore shall execute 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 return thereof within the time prescribed by law.	Art 92, c 1 1849, c 549. To execute warrants from Land Office, and orders, etc., issued by courts
2, He shall keep a regular alphabetical record of the surveyor's duplicate of all surveys or resurveys made by him by virtue of a warrant issued from the Land office.	Id s 2 1849, c 549, 8 2 To keep record of surveys