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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 advertise-
ment in some daily newspaper published in the city of Balti-
more, not less than six times, the first publication to be at
least two months before the execution of such warrant.

1888, art. 54, sec. 30. 1860, art. 54, sec. 23. 1854, ch. 322, sec. 3.
1894, ch. 191.

32. The surveyor shall return to the land office within six
months from the date of such warrant a certificate of survey
and plot, together with the depositions relating to the posses-
sion and occupancy of the lands resurveyed and proof of the
notice by publication or otherwise given to the owners or occu-
piers of the adjacent lauds, and upon 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 31. 1860, art. 54, sec. 24. 1781, ch. 20, sec. 8.

33. Any person may obtain an escheat warrant by applica-
tion 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
Lessee v. Greenfield, 2 H. & McH. 121. Partridge's Lessee v. Colgate, 3 H.
& McH. 339. Owings v. Norwood's Lessee, 2 H. & J. 96. Hall v Gittings,
2 H. & J. 112. Howard v. Moale's Lessee, 2 H. & J. 249. Steuart v.
Donaldson, 5 H. & J 428 Matthews v Ward, 10 G. & J. 443. Lee v. Hoye.
1 Gill, 188. Casey's Lessee v. Inloes, 1 Gill, 430. Wilson v. Inloes, 6 Gill,
159. Clement's Lessee v Buckle, 9 Gill, 328 Smith v Baker, 4 Md. Ch. 29
Goodwin v Caton, 4 Md. Ch 160. Jones v. Badley, 4 Md Ch. 167 Twigg
v. Jacobs, 4 Md. Ch. 541. Hammond's Lessee, v. Inloes, 4 Md. 138. Peter-
kin's Lessee v. Inloas, 4 Md. 175 Brown v. Shilling, 9 Md 74.

Ibid sec. 32 1860, art. 54, sec. 25. 1849, ch. 424, sec. 2 1894, ch 191.

34. Every warrant issued out of the land office shall be
executed within six months from the date thereof, and no
escheat warrant shall be renewed after six months from its date.

Ibid. sec. 33. 1860, art 54, sec 26. 1861, ch. 3. 1894, ch. 191.

35. Every person who has obtained a warrant to survey or
escheat land shall within one year from the date of such