Section 13-307 - Contents of warrant. - Maryland Statutes

§ 13-307. Contents of warrant.
 

(a)  In general.- The warrant shall recite: 

(1) The name and address of the applicant; 

(2) The date when the application was docketed; 

(3) The nature of the request made in the application; and 

(4) A description of the land to be surveyed, as described in the application. 

(b)  Directions to surveyor.- The warrant shall direct the surveyor to: 

(1) Within 30 days of receipt of the warrant, acknowledge its receipt in writing to the Commissioner; 

(2) Specify in the acknowledgement a date, time, and place for making the survey, which date may be no earlier than 10 days and no later than six months after the last publication of notice required by § 13-308 of this subtitle; 

(3) Lay out and survey the land as specified in the acknowledgement; 

(4) Prepare an accurate plat and metes-and-bounds description of the land to be surveyed; 

(5) In a resurvey that discloses an error in any previous survey, correct the error; 

(6) Compute the area of any land included within the description and plat; and 

(7) Within six months from the date the notice of warrant was last published, return his certificate of survey on these matters, together with all duplicates required by § 13-310(a)(1) of this subtitle, to the Commissioner. 

(c)  Signature and seal.- The Commissioner shall sign the warrant and affix the seal for land patent proceedings to it. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 21, § 13-106; 1974, ch. 12, § 2; 1976, ch. 915, § 3.]