ART. 15] COMMISSION TO BOUND LANDS. 365

or partly in this State and partly in an adjoining State, any
person interested may. have a commission to mark and bound
the whole tract when lying wholly in this State, and also his
particular part; and when lying partly in this State and partly
in an adjoining State, any citizen of this or of any of the
United States may have a commission to mark and bound
such part as shall lie within this State.

1888, art. 15, sec. 4. 1860, art. 15, sec. 4. 1786, ch. 33, sec. 8.

4. Where several persons hold separate parts of one and
the same tract, they, or any of them, may have a commission,
as well to mark and bound the whole tract as their particular
parts thereof; and where any person holds a younger survey,
and is thereby interested in the location of interfering or
neighboring elder surveys, he shall be entitled to a commission
to mark and bound any such elder survey, if the person; or
some one of the persons, applying for the commission, shall
have given notice in writing to the person seized of such elder
tract, of his or their intention of applying for such commis-
sion, nine months before the petition therefor, and the person
seized of such elder tract shall have neglected to apply and
obtain a commission.

Ibid. sec. 5. 1860, art 15, sec 4. 1786, ch. 33, sec 2.

5. Any person entitled to lands, as mentioned in the pre-
ceding sections, and intending to apply for a commission to
mark and bound the same, shall give notice two months before
the meeting of the court at which he intends to make his
application, by advertisement set up at the court-house door
of the county, and at two other public places in the district
where such lands lie, of his intention to apply to the court for
a commission to mark and bound his land, named or otherwise
described in such advertisement; and shall also give notice in
writing to the persons holding the adjoining lands, if residing
thereon, or if absent, by leaving such notice at the houses of
such persons, thirty days before the meeting of the court as
aforesaid; and if no person lives on the adjoining land, he
shall give such notice by advertisement for four successive
weeks in some newspaper printed in the city of Baltimore, and
also give personal notice to the owner of the adjoining land, or
to his agent or attorney, if known and in the State, thirty days
before the meeting of the court as aforesaid.

Weems' lessee v. Disney, 4 H. & McH. 156.