STATE WEATHER SERVICE.

Name. Postoffice.
Edward B. Matthews, Director. ......................... .Baltimore
Alfred II. Thiessen, Meteorologist. ....................... .Baltimore
W. T. L. Taliaferro, Sec. and Treas....................College Park

The Governor commissions a Director, designated by the President
of Johns Hopkins University; a Meteorologist, designated by the Chief
of the U. S. Weather Bureau, and a Secretary and Treasurer, desig-
nated by the President of the University of Maryland, for a term of
two years from the first Monday in May. (Bagby Code, Art. 96A,
Sec. 1.)

COMMISSIONER OF THE LAND OFFICE—Annapolis.
S. Shepherd................................. Cambridge

Chief Clerk:
Arthur Trader .................................... Annapolis

Assistant Clerks:

Richard Duvall ...............................St. Margarets
Edward Phelps ................................... Annapolis

Index Clerks:

Isaac O. Taylor...................................... Hurlock
Dr. F. F. Hicks................................... Cambridge
Wm. T. Andrews. ................................ .Cambridge
John P. Stafford...................................... Easton
Frank S. Revell...................................... Marley
Chas. W. Brohawn.................................... Salem

Stenographer:
Eva M. Clark..................................... Annapolis

The Commissioner of the Land Office is appointed by the Gover-
nor, with the consent of the Senate, to hold office during the term of
the Governor. The Commissioner appoints all officers in his office.
(Constitution, Art. 7, Sec. 4.)

The Land Office is the State Record Office, pertaining to boundaries
of land, and is the means by which discovered vacant land is passed
by the State to the individual, and covers the period from the earliest
to the present date. The Commissioner sits as a judge in contested
disputes over vacant land, and there is a right of appeal direct to the
Court of Appeals over his decision.

The duties of the Land Office, in regard to its clerical force, is to
keep the indexing, answer the various questions that are daily brought
to it by the mail, wait on the visiting public, and record the patents
and certificates that are returned on the different kinds of warrants
executed by the county surveyors throughout the State.

Questions relating to military service during the War of the
American Revolution.

Questions relating to wills, administration proceedings, inventories,
accounts and balances from the earliest to 1777.
Questions relating to confiscated British property.
Questions relating to Provincial Court, General Court, Court of
Chancery, debt books, rent rolls, insolvent proceedings, and extract of
deeds from the whole State.