rian has charge of the State library and printed docu-
ments. (Article 55, of the Code.)

Surveyor, County.—Courts may appoint Surveyor to
survey in pending cases; he shall take oath in Article 26,
section II, 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 resurvey returned to the Land Office ; he shall
state in such certificate 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 com-
mon, escheats, survey shall be made of the whole; no
surveyor or deputy survey or shall take up any vacant
land unless the land adjoins lands to which he is bona
fide entitled; 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 cer-
tificate 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 certificates unless he has actually run
and measured the distance : his certificate shall not con-
tain more land than certified therein; fees of the county
surveyor found in Article 37, 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, Comp-
troller 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