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fifty-day rule. Article 7, section 3. His bond is such as the
committee of the Senate and House of Delegates on Library may
approve. The Governor fills vacancy in the office; the State
Librarian has charge of the State library and printed documents.
Article 55, of the Code.

Surveyor, County. —Courts may appoint Surveyor to survey in
pending cases; he shall take oath in Article 26, section 11, of
the Code, before acting; he shall test once a year the variation
of the compass by the meridian line; he shall execute warrants
from Land Office and from courts; he shall keep an alphabetical
record of surveys; his books shall be open to inspection; he may
appoint deputies; he may administer oaths to chain-carriers;
sheriff to summon witnesses on warrant of survey from the
court, and they may be attached; he shall insert the course and
distance of the given line in all, certificates of survey and re-
survey returned to the Land Office; he shall state in such certifi-
cates the number of acres and their value; he shall give ten days'
notice of execution of a warrant of re-survey; where part of
land held in common, escheats, survey shall be made of the
whole; no surveyor or deputy surveyor shall take up any vacant
land unless the land adjoins lands to which he is bona fide en-
titled; warrants in such cases must be directed to the surveyor
in the adjoining county; oath in such case found in Article 91,
section 15, of the Code; the court may put costs on surveyor for
failure to return plots; the party is not bound to pay the fees
for erroneous certificate returned to the Commissioner of the
Land Office; the Surveyor shall pay to the Commissioner of the
Land Office one-third usual fees thereon; he shall not mention
the boundaries in certificate unless he has actually run and meas-
ured the distance; his certificate shall not contain more land
than certified therein; fees of the county surveyor found in
Article 36, section 3, of the Code. He is elected by the people
for two years; does not bond. Articles 26, 25, 91 and 36,
Code.

Tax Commissioner. —Appointed by the Governor, Comptroller
and Treasurer, or a majority of them; he shall take the usual
oath prescribed by the Constitution for officers of the State;
term four years from the date of his qualification, and until the
appointment and qualification of his successor; salary, $2, 500;
travelling expenses allowed to the amount of $800. He is to
assess the shares of stock of incorporated companies; he may
examine, under oath, officers of corporations, or other witnesses,
as to the affairs of the corporation; he must report the assess-
ment to the Comptroller; his assessment is subject to appeal or
revision by the Comptroller and Treasurer; he must report to
the General Assembly at every regular session; he may, with
the Attorney-General, have struck from the assessment lists any