It shall be the duty of the surveyor faithfully to execute all orders of survey directed to him by any court, and to make all surveys of land within his county, at the request of the owners or proprietors thereof, and to do whatsoever in the surveying, resurveying, measuring, and dividing of land that may be required of him by any person.Codes, Hutchinson's 1848, ch. 31, art 1 (2); 1857, ch. 6, art 168; 1871, § 273; 1880, § 380; 1892, § 4390; 1906, § 4955; Hemingway's 1917, § 7738; 1930, § 7140; 1942, § 4269.
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