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SURVEYOR. [ART. 17.

Id s 3.
1840, c 549, s 2
Expense of
books.

3. The books for that purpose shall be procured at the expense
and shall be the property of the county or city, and shall be kept by
the surveyor thereof, open to the inspection of all persons who may
desire to examine the same, and shall be handed down to his suc-

Id s 4.
1349, c 549, s 3
Deputies

Id s 5
1311, c 100
To administer
oath to chain
and pole ear-
ners

cessor in office
4. Each surveyor may appoint a deputy or deputies.
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 mak-
ing a survey.

Id s 6
1811, c 100
Who may be
chain or pole
carrier

6. No person but a free white male person above the age of
twenty-one years shall be a chain or pole carrier.
7. On the execution of any warrant of resurvey from any of the

Id s 7
1789, c 35, s 7
To summon
witnesses on
surveys

Attendance,
bow compelled

courts of this State, or 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 wit-
ness shall be adjudged in contempt of the court, and attachment
may issue as in other cases of contempt.

Id s 8
1847, c 329
To insert course
and distance of
closing lines in
certificate of
survey.

Id s 9
1795, c 88, s 11
To return value
and improve-
ments on land
in certificate.

Id s 10
1841, c 108
Notice of war-
rant of re-
survey

8. The surveyors of the several counties and the city of Baltimore
shall insert in every certificate of survey or resurvey returned to the
Land Office, the course and distance of the given or closing line in
every survey or resurvey.
9. In returning certificates to the Land Office, the surveyor shall
state the quantity and quality of the improvements on the land in-
cluded in the survey or resurvey and subject to the operation of the
warrant, with his opinion of the value of the same
10. No warrant of resurvey 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.

Id c 11
1800, c 70
To survey whole
tract under
escheat warrant
for portion of a
tenant in
common

11. When warrants of escheat shall be delivered to a surveyor
to execute, 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 common to be surveyed, and a certificate

To return cer-
tificate

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 treasurer 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

Patent for un-
divided portion

certificate may be returned, or his heirs or assigns, for the undivided
portion of the land that may be liable to escheat

Id s 12
1795, c 88, s 5
When certifi-
cate returned
by deputy after

12. If any warrant for surveying or resurveying land shall issue,
and the same shall be executed by a deputy of the surveyor author-
ized to execute the same, and before a certificate of the survey or re-