364 BOUNDING LANDS. [ART. 15

ARTICLE XV,

BOUNDING LANDS.

1. What court to issue commission. 2. Who entitled to commission. 3. When land lies in this or adjoin- ing State or in adjoining counties. 4. Separate parts of same tract. 5. Notice of proposed commission; how given. 6. How commission to be issued. 7. Notice of meeting of commis- sioners. 8. Oath of commissioners. 9. Meeting of commissioners. 10. Summons for witnesses.

11. Attachment for non-attendance. 12. Oath to surveyor and chain- carriers. 13. Depositions of witnesses. 14. Marking boundaries; plats and certificates. 15. When record conclusive; quali- fications. 16. Lines fairly agreed on not to be varied. 17. Lines and boundaries agreed on may be recorded. 18. Compensation of commissioners.

1888, art. 15, sec. 1. 1860, art. 15, sec. 1. 1786, ch. 33, sec. 2

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 port of it, lies in the city of Baltimore,
it may be issued by the superior court of Baltimore city; and
the word county, as used in this article, shall include the city
of Baltimore.

Ibid. sec. 2. 1860, art. 15, sec. 2. 1786, ch. 33, sec. 2. 1787, ch. 22, sec. 2.

1808, ch. 46, sec. 2.

2. Any person or body corporate, entitled to any estate of
inheritance in lands in possession, remainder or reversion, or
having a life estate therein, or on estate for years by a lease
having twenty-one years to run, duly executed and recorded, if
such lands ore described 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.

Ibid. sec. 3. 1860, -art. 15, sec. 3. 1793, ch. 70, sec. 4.

3. In all cases where the same tract is held by different
persons, and lies partly in one county and partly in another,