Marvin Mandel, Governor                       1103

return receipt requested, to each adjoining landowner named in the
application and to the Board of Public Works. Notice of the issuance
of such warrant shall also be inserted by the applicant once each
week for two successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation
published in any county in which any portion of the land de-
scribed in the application is situated. Notices referred to in this
subsection shall contain the information required as recitals in the
warrant, the date of the issuance of the warrant,, and the name and
address of the surveyor to whom it was directed. A certificate of
the publication of such notice shall be filed in the proceeding.

13-107. Execution of warrant; rules for conduct of surveyors; cer-
tificate of survey or resurvey; form and contents of plat;
death and substitution of surveyor; charges of surveyor;
provisions of Article 91 §§ 1 to 18 superseded.

(a)    Execution of warrant; rules for conduct.—After thirty days
from the date of issuance of the warrant, but not less than two weeks
from the date of the last insertion of the notice required by § 13-106,
the surveyor shall proceed to execute the warrant. The Commissioner
may prescribe rules for the conduct of surveyors which are supple-
mental to the requirements of this title.

(b)    Certificate.—After the surveyor has surveyed the alleged va-
cant land and/or the land to be resurveyed he shall prepare and
verify by his affidavit two copies of a certificate, which shall be
returned to the Commissioner within six months from the date of
the issuance of the warrant. In any case the Commissioner may,
in his discretion, extend the time for the return of the certificates
upon written request of the applicant or the surveyor setting forth
the reasons therefor. No such extension shall be for a period longer
than sixty days.

(c)    Contents of certificate.—The certificate returned by the
surveyor shall contain a composite metes-and-bounds description of
the alleged vacant land and/or the land to be resurveyed; the quan-
tity of any vacant land believed to be embraced within such survey
and a separate description thereof, referenced to a boundary of the
description of the entire tract; the quantity of any land resurveyed;
and a statement of the character and condition of any improvements
on any alleged vacant land, or a statement that no such improve-
ments exist. The surveyor shall certify that he has actually run and
measured the distance to each boundary; that all boundaries referred
to are at the end of the lines as expressed,' that the plat has been
prepared in accordance with the provisions of subsection (d);
and that the plat and descriptions accurately reflect the condition
found by him to exist on the land.

(d)    Form and contents of plat.—The surveyor shall include as
part of his certificate a plat drawn accurately to scale and on a good
quality of tracing linen (or be blueprints or blue or black line
prints on linen), which shall contain the courses and distances of
all the outline or perimeter of the alleged vacant land and/or land
resurveyed. The radii and chords of all curved lines shall be shown on
the plat by courses and distances and their tangent points located by
the coordinates hereinafter defined. The plat shall show a meridian
line drawn through one of the corners of the outline or perimeter
of the land and another line drawn at right angles to said meridian