ART. 46. ] BOUNDING LANDS. 399
ARTICLE XLVI.
BOUNDING LANDS.
1. Commission for, by what court issued
2 Who may have commission
3 Where tract held by different persons and
lies partly in one county and partly in
another, etc
4 Where several persons hold separate parts
of same tract, and where person holds
younger survey
5 Notice of application
6 To whom commissions to be issued.
7 Notice by commissioners
8 Oath of commissioners
9 Commissioners to make surveys
10 To issue summonses for witnesses.
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11 Attendance of witnesses, bow compelled.
12 Commissioners to administer oath
13. To take and return depositions, when re-
corded to be evidence
14 To set up boundaries, and to return plats;
returns to be recorded
15 When adjudication of commissioners, and
record thereof, to be conclusive evi-
dence, infants, married women, etc, ex-
cepted
16 Where parties have agreed, commission
not to act
17 Agreement of parties may be recorded
18 Fees of commissioners, surveyors, etc
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COMMISSIONS TO PERPETUATE BOUNDARIES OF LANDS
19 Commissions to perpetuate bounds of land,
how taken
20 Commissioners to give notice.
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21 Examinations as available as If taken under
rules of courts of equity
22 Pay of commisioners
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1. Any commission authorized by this article may be issued by the
Circuit Court for the county where any part of the land lies, or if
the land, or part of it, lies in the city of Baltimore, it may be issued
by the Superior Court for Baltimore City; and the word county as
used in this article shall include the city of Baltimore.
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Art 15, s. 1
1786, c 33, s 2
Commission for,
by what court
issued
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2. Any person, or body corporate, entitled to any estate of in-
heritance in lands in possession, remainder, or reversion, or having
a life estate therein, or an estate for years by a lease having twenty-
one years to run, duly executed and recorded, if such lands are de-
scribed by courses and distances only as to any of the lines thereof
in the grant or deed under which they are held, or if any of the
bounds called for are lost, may have a commission to mark and
bound such lands, by complying with the provisions of the following
sections
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Id s 2
1786, c 33, s 2,
1787, c 22, s 2,
1808, c 46, s 2
Who may have
commission
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3. In all cases where the same tract is held by different persons,
and lies partly in one county and partly in another, or partly in this
State and partly in an adjoining State, any person interested may
have a commission to mark and bound the whole tract when lying
wholly in this State, and also his particular part; and when lying
partly in this State, and partly in an adjoining State, any citizen of
this or any of the United States may have a commission to mark and
bound such part as shall lie within this State.
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Id s 3.
1793, c 70, s 4
Where tract
held by differ-
ent persons and
lies partly in
one county and
partly in an-
other, etc
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4. Where several persons hold separate parts of one and the
same tract, they, or any of them, may have a commission as well to
mark and bound the whole tract as their particular parts thereof,
and where any person holds a younger survey, and is thereby inter-
ested in the location of interfering or neighboring elder surveys, he
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Id s. 4
1786, c 33, 8 8
Where several
persons hold
separate parts
of same tract,
and where per-
son holds
younger survey.
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