1148                             Laws of Maryland                      [Ch. 513

7.

On the execution of any warrant of resurvey from any of the
courts of this State or on the execution of any order of a court of
equity of this State to make a survey, the sheriff or coroner shall
summon the witnesses he may be directed to summon by either party
and upon proof of [such] the summons and nonattendance of the
witness made to the court from which the warrant or order issued,
such witness shall be adjudged in contempt of court and an attach-
ment may issue as in other cases of contempt.

10.

No warrant of resurvey issued from any of the courts of this State
shall be executed until after ten days' notice to the parties in the
cause of OR their counsel of record, unless a different time of notice
shall be prescribed by rule or order of the court issuing [such] the
warrant, or unless notice be waived or agreed upon by the parties.

11.

When warrants of escheat shall be delivered to a surveyor to
execute in order to survey lands held in tenancy in common, and the
part only of one or more of the [said] tenants in common [hath]
have become liable to escheat, the surveyor shall cause the whole of
the [said] land so held in common to be surveyed, and a certificate
thereof returned to the Land Office specifying the value of the whole
tract of land and improvements thereon; and after the examination
of the [said] certificate and payment to the Treasurer of two thirds
of the value of the escheatable part of the land therein expressed, a
patent shall issue in due time to the party in whose name the [said]
certificate may be returned, or his heirs or assigns, for the undivided
portion of the land that may be liable to escheat.

12.

If any warrant for surveying or resurveying land shall issue and
the [same] warrant shall be executed by a deputy of the surveyor
authorized to execute [the same] it and before a certificate of the
survey or resurvey shall be made out and signed by the [said]
surveyor he shall die, the [said] deputy may, within six months
after [such] the surveyor's death, make out and sign a plot and
special certificate stating the circumstances of the case with an
affidavit of the truth thereof annexed or endorsed, and the [said]
certificate shall be as good and effectual as if made out and signed
by the [said] surveyor; and if any amendment or correction of the
[said] plot or certificate shall be necessary, the amendment or correc-
tion shall be made by the [said] deputy or [such] other person as
the [Commissioner of the Land Office] Archivist of the Hall of
Records Commission shall think proper.

13.

If any certificate shall be made out by any surveyor authorized to
make the same under a warrant of survey or resurvey, and the same
shall be duly returned, and an order of the [Commissioner of the
Land Office] Archivist of the Hall of Records Commission shall be
made for correcting the same, and the surveyor shall resign his