1839.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 34.

the name of the said applicant or other person named by
him, the ordinary loan office certificate or certificates of
debt of this State for the principal of the bond or bonds
so surrendered to him as aforesaid, converted into cur-
rent money of the United States, at the rate of four dollars
and four-ninths of a dollar for each pound sterling, to

Bearing 5 per
cent interest.

bear interest of five per centum per annum, from the first of
January or July next after its issue, payable quarterly at the
State's loan office in Baltimore, and to be there redeemable
at the pleasure of the State, after the time in that behalf
limited in and by the said sterling bonds.

CHAPTER 34.

Passed Mar. 19,

1840.

A supplement to an act, entitled an act to quiet possessions
and to prevent suits at law.

Surveyor, on
application, to
make survey.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That on the application of any person or per-
sons or bodies corporate or politic, claiming to be owner
or owners in fee simple of any lands in this State, which
lands hare been peaceably and quietly held and occupied
with or without enclosure, by the person or persons, or
bodies corporate, or those under whom he, she or they
may claim, for at least twenty years preceding such appli-
cation to the surveyor of the county in which such lands
shall lie, for a survey thereof, according to certain well de-
fined metes and bounds, natural or artificial, it shall be

Notice to be
given.

the duty of the surveyor to make such survey, after hav-
ing given at least thirty days notice thereof by advertise-
ment, posted at the court house door of the county in
which such land shall lie, and at least three of the most
public places in the neighborhood of such lands.

Surveyor to be
satisfied of 20

years possession.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That previous to making
any such survey, the surveyor shall be satisfied by the
testimony under oath, delivered at the time of such sur-
vey, of at least two respectable persons residing in the
neighborhood of said lands, that the person or persons,
or bodies corporate or politic, or those under whom he,
she or they may claim, have peaceably and quietly held
and occupied the same lands, with or without enclosure,
according to the metes, lines and bounds, natural or arti-
ficial thereof, as required to be surveyed and set forth by
the said surveyor in the certificate of such survey, for at