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office without making out a corrected certificate or correcting the
original, the [Commissioner of the Land Office] Archivist, on the
application of the party, may in his discretion order the correction
to be made by the [said] surveyor; and the corrected certificate
made out by him shall be as good and effectual as if he had not
resigned, and he shall be entitled to [such] any fees [therefor]
as the [Commissioner of the Land Office] Archivist of the Hall of
Records Commission shall under all circumstances deem reasonable,
not exceeding the fees allowed to surveyors.

15.

All warrants taken out for the purpose of taking up land under
the preceding sections shall be directed to the county surveyor of any
adjoining county who, before he executes the [same] warrant, shall
take the following oath to be endorsed on the warrant, to wit:
"I, A. B., do swear that I will well and truly execute this warrant
to the best of my skill and judgment, without favor, affection or
partiality."

16.

If in any cause, plots made under the order of the court are not
returned from the neglect of the surveyor, the court may order him
to pay the costs of the term and may impose on him [such] a fine
as the circumstances of the case may require.

17.

If a surveyor shall return a certificate for the examination of the
[Commissioner of the Land Office] Archivist of the Hall of Records
Commission and [the same] it shall be found by him to be erroneous,
the party for whose use the survey was made shall not pay any fees
to the [Commissioner] Archivist or surveyor on such erroneous
certificate, but the surveyor shall pay to the [Commissioner of the
Land Office] Archivist one third the usual fees thereon.

18.

No surveyor shall mention any boundary in his certificate of any
survey, unless he shall actually run and measure the distance to
[such] the boundary and the boundaries by him returned shall be
at the end of the line as expressed and his certificate shall not contain
more land than certified by him therein.

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27.

The surveyors of the several counties [and the City of Baltimore]
shall each be entitled to charge for his services, under warrant of
survey or resurvey directed from the land office, or under such orders
or warrants directed from the courts of law, or under courts of equity
a per diem fee comparable to the fee prevailing in that respective
county [and Baltimore City] as practiced by the members of the
Maryland Society of Surveyors.