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<section article="grp" article_name="Real Property" number="13-307" title_number="13" title_name="Land Patents" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Application and Issuance of Warrant; Valuation of Land">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The warrant shall recite:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>The name and address of the applicant;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The date when the application was docketed;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>The nature of the request made in the application; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>A description of the land to be surveyed, as described in the application.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The warrant shall direct the surveyor to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Within 30 days of receipt of the warrant, acknowledge its receipt in writing to the Commissioner;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>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;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Lay out and survey the land as specified in the acknowledgement;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Prepare an accurate plat and metes-and-bounds description of the land to be surveyed;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>In a resurvey that discloses an error in any previous survey, correct the error;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>Compute the area of any land included within the description and plat; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>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.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>The Commissioner shall sign the warrant and affix the seal for land patent proceedings to it.</text>
  </level>
</section>
