908 LAND OFFICE. [ART. 54.

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 hold-
ing 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.

Mitchell v. Mitchell, 1 Md. 52. Hoye v. Swann, 5 Md. 237.

P. G. L , (1860,) art 54, sec. 22. 1854, ch. 322, sec. 2.

29. 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,
the first publication to be at least two months before the ex-

ecution of such warrant.

Ibid. sec. 23. 1854, ch. 322, sec. 3.

30. The surveyor shall return to the land office, within one
year from the date of such warrant, a certificate of survey and
plot, together with the depositions relating to the possession and

occupancy of the lands resurveyed, and proof of the notice, by
publication or otherwise, given to the owners or occupiers of the
adjacent lands; and upon the return of such certificate and proofs,
if no caveat or objection be made within six months after such
return, the commissioner of the land office shall issue a patent
thereon to the person, or his heirs or assigns, who obtained such

warrant of resurvey.

Ibid, sec 24. 1781, ch. 20, sec 8.

31. Any person may obtain an escheat warrant by application
to the commissioner of the land office, unless some other person
has obtained or is entitled to a warrant affecting the land.

Greave's Lessee v. Dempsey, 1 H & McH 65 Carvill's Lessee v. Griffith, 1
H. & McH. 297. Hutchins, Lessee v. Erickson, 1 H & McH, 339. Kelly's