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