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be issued, shall be authorized to sign such patent and to cause
the great seal to be affixed thereto.

1888, art. 54, sec. 42. 1860, art. 54, sec. 35

45. The commissioner of the land office may prescribe rules
to regulate the conduct of surveyors in making surveys and
returning certificates and plats; and he shall in all things
regulate his proceedings by the usages and principles which
have heretofore been established by the practice of the land
office, not inconsistent with this article or the principles of
equity.

Ringgold's Lessee v. Malott, 1 H. & J. 299. Hammond's Lessee v. War-
field, 2 H. & J. 151. Chisholm v Perry, 4 Md. Ch. 31. Jones v. Badley,
4 Md Ch. 167.

Ibid. sec. 43. 1860, art. 54. sec. 36. 1785, ch. 66, sec. 7.

46. Any person holding lands and being in actual posses-
sion thereof in this State, under a warrant and survey or under
a patent granted by the government of Pennsylvania before the
divisional line between the two States was fixed, shall be
entitled to receive a patent for such land from the proper
authorities of this State.

Agreement between Lord Baltimore and William Penn.

Ibid, sec 44. 1862, ch. 129, sec. 37.

47. The proprietor of land bounding on any of the naviga-
ble waters of this State shall be entitled to all accretions to
said land by the recession of said water, whether heretofore or
hereafter formed or made by natural causes or otherwise, in
like manner and to like extent as such right may or can be
claimed by the proprietor of land bounding on water not
navigable.

Williams v. Baker, 41 Md. 527. Goodsell v. Lawson, 42 Md. 348 Linthi-
cum v. Coan, 64 Md. 439 Sollers v. Sollers, 77 Md. 149 Corbett v. Wool-
ford, 84 Md. 426.

Ibid sec 45. 1662, ch 129, sec 38.

48. The proprietor of land bounding on any of the navi-
gable waters of this State shall be entitled to the exclusive
right of making improvements into the waters in front of his
said land; such improvements and other accretions as above
provided for shall pass to the successive owners of the land to
which they are attached, as incident to their respective estates.
But no such improvement shall be so made as to interfere with