980 MECHANICS' LIEN. [ART. 63

P. G. L , (1860,) art 61, sec 4. 1838, ch. 205, sec. 2.

4. The said lien shall extend to the ground covered by such
building, and to so much other ground immediately adjacent
thereto and belonging in like manner to the owner of such building;
as may be necessary for the ordinary and useful purposes of such
building, the quantity and boundaries whereof shall be designated
in the following .manner.

Ibid. sec. 5. 1838, ch. 205, sec. 4.

5. The owner of any lot or farm who may be desirous of
erecting any building, or of contracting with any person for the
erection thereof, may define in writing the boundaries of the lot
or land or curtilage appurtenant to such building previously to
the commencement thereof, and file the same with the clerk of
the circuit court for the county, or of the superior court of Balti-
more city, as the case may be, for record, and such designation of
boundaries shall be obligatory upon all persons concerned.

Ibid. sec. 6 1838, ch. 205, sec. 5 1845, ch. 287, sec 6.

6. In default of such designation of boundaries previous to the
commencement of any building, it shall be lawful for the owner
of such lot or piece of ground, or for any person having a lien
upon the same by mortgage, judgment or otherwise, or entitled
to a lien by virtue of this article, to apply by petition in writing
to the judge of the circuit court for the county or the superior
court of the city of Baltimore, to designate the boundaries.

Ibid. sec. 7. 1838, ch. 205, sec. 6.

7. It shall be the duty of said court to issue an order to the
county or city surveyor, or some other surveyor, to examine the
building or place at which such building is being erected, and to
make a report to such court, in which he shall sufficiently desig-
nate and describe, by metes and bounds, with their courses and
distances, and by a draft if necessary, the limits and extent of
grounds necessary for the convenient use of such building for the
purpose for which it was designed, and such report shall be
entered at length upon the record book hereinafter mentioned,
and if approved by the court, shall be conclusive upon all per-
sons concerned.