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76
LAND OFFICE OF MARYLAND,
Annapolis,May 18th, 1867.
To the Honorable
RICHARD B. CARMICHAEL, President Convention :
In compliance with an order of 'the Convention of which
you are the presiding officer, requesting the Commissioner of
the Land Office to furnish to the Convention a statement of
the number of Common Warrants, Special Warrants, Pro-
clamation Warrants, Escheat Warrants and Warrantsof Re-
survey issued by him in the years 18G4, 1865 and 1866, and
the number of caveats heard and determined by him, and
the amount of revenues and fees of said office during the
same period, and paid by him into the treasury of the State,
I beg leave to report that for the year 1864 no fees were paid
into the treasury of the State. The salary of the Commis-
sioner of the Land Office, at that time, was derived from the
fees of office, including twenty-five per cent, commission on
all caution and composition money received for the State, and
the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars paid to him from
the State Treasury as keeper of the Chancery Records, &c.
The sum paid into the treasury during the year 1864, for
caution and composition money, was four hundred and eight
dollars and fifty cents, (408.50.)
There were issued during the years 1864, 1865 and 1866,
the following warrants, viz.:
1864.
Common Warrants........................................16
Special Warrant..................................22
Proclamation Warrants................................. 2
Escheat Warrants.........................................20
Warrants of Re-survey...................................54
Total...............................................74
1865.
Common Warrants..................................... 40
Special Warrants..........................................26
Proclamition Warrants.................................. 2
Escheat Warrants............................ ..........18
Warrants of Re-survey................................. 20
Total.......................................106
1866.
Common Warrants.........................................23
Special Warrants..........................................28
Proclamation Warrants.................................. 2
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