1839.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 113.

five, a table of fees was given, by which the surveyors of
the several counties have their services rated by an allow-
ance in tobacco; and whereas, since said period the
character of surveys is much changed, and the rates then
regulating the surveyors fees do not cover the necessary
labor they now have to undergo, but leave a portion
thereof to be covered and met by usage •without the sanc-
tion of law— therefore,

Surveyor's per

diem.

Account to be

stated on oath.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That the surveyor of Frederick county be,
and he is hereby authorized to charge for his individual
services, under warrants of survey or re-survey, directed
from the land office, under orders or warrants of re-sur-
vey, directed from the county court, and under orders di-
rected from the Chancellor, a per diem of four dollars for
each clay be may necessarily be engaged in performing
the duty the said orders or warrants may enjoin; and the
said surveyor, when the same shall be required by the
persons for whom the services shall be rendered, shall

To keep record.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty
of the present and succeeding surveyors of Frederick
county to keep a regular alphabetical record of the sur-
veyor's duplicate certificate of all surveys or re-surveys
hereafter made by virtue of a warrant issued from the
land office, and that the record book or books shall be
procured at the cost of the county, and shall be of the
same description of those now in the surveyor's office,
and in which the old certificates are recorded; and that
the said record books shall be the property of the county,
and shall be kept in the surveyor's office, and be handed
down to the successive county surveyors.

CHAPTER 113.

Passed Mar. 19,
1840.

An act for the distribution of the Interest on the State's
Share of the Surplus Revenue Fund, so far as relates
to Caroline County.

Interest surplus

revenue to be
distributed.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That from and after the passage of this act,
the share of the interest on the surplus revenue belonging
to Caroline county, shall be distributed between the seve-
ral election districts of said county, by the orphans' court