# Real Property (GRP)

## Title 13. Land Patents

### Subtitle 3. Application and Issuance of Warrant; Valuation of Land

#### Section 13-307

(a) 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) 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 Sec. 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 Sec. 13-310(a)(1) of this subtitle, to the Commissioner.

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

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Md. Code Ann., Real Prop. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)