ART. 54] WARRANTS—COMMON—SPECIAL—RESURVEY. 1409

1888, art. 54, sec. 26. 1860, art. 54, sec. 19. 1861, ch. 3. 1894, ch. 191.

28. Any person may obtain a common warrant, special war-
rant or proclamation warrant by applying to the commissioner
of the land office and paying him the sum of twenty-five cents
for each acre mentioned in such warrant.

Hath's Lessee v. Folk, 1 H. & McH. 363. Ringgold's Lessee v. Malott, 1
H &. J. 209. Hammond's Lessee v Warfield, 2 H. & J. 151. Steuart's
Lessee v. Mason, 3 H & J. 507. Steuart v Donaldson, 5 H. & J. 428. Hoye
v Johnston, 2 Gill, 291.

Ibid. sec. 27. 1860, art. 54, sec. 20.

29. Any person being the owner in fee simple of any lauds
may obtain by application to the commissioner of the land officer
a warrant of resurvey to resurvey said land, whether the same
consists of one or several tracts or parts of tracts, and may
add any contiguous vacancy thereto.

Seward's Lessee v. Hicks, 1 H. & McH. 22. Jenifer's Lessee v. Baker, 1
H. & McH. 57. Trammell v. Hook, 1 H. & McH. 259. Howard's Lessee v.
Cromwell, 4 H. & McH. 325. Ibid., 1 H. & J. 115. Beall's Lessee v. Beall,
1 H. & J. 346. Hammond's Lessee v. Norris, 2 H. & J. 130. Hammond's
Lessee v. Warfield, 2 H & J. 151. Bradford's Lessee v. McComas, 3 H. &
J. 444. Steyer v. Hoye, 12 G. & J. 202. Lee v. Hoye, 1 Gill, 188. Casey's
Lessee v. Inloes, 1 Gill, 430 Hoye v. Johnston, 2 Gill, 291. Hoffman v.
Johnson, 1 Bl. 103. Hughlett's Case, 3 Bl. 474. Buckingham v. Dorsey, 1
Md. Ch. 31. Wilson v. Markle, 4 Md. Ch. 534. Twigg v. Jacobs, 4 Md. Ch.
541.

Ibid. sec. 28. 1860, art. 54, sec. 21. 1839, ch. 34, sec. 1.
1841, ch. 333. 1854, ch. 322, sec. 1.

30. Any person entitled to lands in fee simple and being in
possession thereof and not desiring to add contiguous vacancy
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 pos-
session and holding 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.

Ibid. sec. 29. 1860, art. 54, sec. 22. 1854, ch. 322, sec. 2.

31. 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