Maryland Real Property 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 § 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.