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The governor and council to appoint the registers of the land-office —

Const, art. 48.

The registers of the land-office to hold their commissions during good

behaviour, removable only for misbehaviour on conviction in a

court of law — Const, art. 40.

Every register of the land-office, before he acts as such, shall take ati

oath, that he will not, directly or indirectly, receive any fee or

reward for doing his office but what is or shall be allowed by law.

nor will, directly or indirectly, receive the profits, or any part of

the profits, of any office held by any other person, and that he

does not hold the same office in trust or for the benefit of any other

person — Const, art. 52.

Punishment for their so receiving the profits, &c. — Const, art. 53.

Fees of the registers of the land-office established — Nov. 1779, ch. 25,

sec. 2, p. 147; 1795, ch. 61, sec. 9, . . . .

325

All lands in the state westward of fort Cumberland, (except where lo-

cated warrants have issued or surveys been made under common

warrants, and except such as were then bona fide the property of

any subject of this or the United States, and cm which the money

had been actually paid,) appropriated to discharge the engagements

of lands made to the officers and soldiers, and the residue to the

use of the public, and no grant to issue on any survey made in

virtue of such warrants before the order of the general assembly —

Nov. 1781, ch. 20, sec. 2, .

168

A land office to be held for the western shore at Annapolis, and for the

eastern shore at the place of holding the general court, under the

direction of the registers — 1781, ch. 20, sec. 3, .

168

The registers to have possession of the extracts of the grants and cer-

tificates of lands to be made agreeably to tiie directions of the form

of government — 1781, ch. 20, sec. 3, ......

168

To grant warrants for resurveying, proclamating or escheating, any

land on their respective shores — 1781, ch. 20, sec. 3, .

168

To issue, on the order or titling of the treasurers, common or special

warrants of vacant cultivation for surveying any vacant land culti-

vated or uncultivated — 1781, ch. 20, sec. 3, .

168

Such warrants to be executed by the county surveyors, and their cer-

tificates returned, but no original certificate of survey or resurvey

to be received into the office unless, passed by the examiner-

general, and returned before the first day of July then next, or

within eighteen months from the date of the warrant— 1781, ch.

20, sec. 3, p. 168; 1795, ch. 88, sec. 7, .....

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The register on the western shore, after payment of the purchase or

caution money, (if any due,) to the treasurer, shall make out a

grant, and present the same to the chancellor for his approbation,

and being attested by him, and signed by the governor, the seal of

the state shall be thereunto annexed-— Nov. 1781, ch. 20, sec. 3, .

168

The register on the eastern shore shall, in such cases, make out a grant,

and present it to the judge of the land-office on that shore for his

approbation, and when approved, shall transmit it to be attested by