MARYLAND MANUAL.


COMMISSIONER OF THE LAND OFFICE—Annapolis.
(All Terms Expire 1929.)
Name. Postoffice.

Commissioner:
D. Russell Talbott Dunkirk

Chief Clerk:
Arthur Trader Annapolis

Assistant Clerk:
Edward Phelps Annapolis

Index Clerks:
John P. Stafford Easton
Holland P. Watts Odenton

Stenographer:
Malcolm W. Waring Annapolis


The Commissioner of the Land Office is appointed by the Governor,
with the consent of the Senate, to hold office during the term of the
Governor. The Commissioner appoints all officers in his office. (Con
stitution, 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 warrant8
executed by the county surveyors throughout the State.

Questions relating to military service during the War of the Amer
ican 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.



SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS—
Annapolis.
Name. Postoffice.
Superintendent:
John R. Phipps Annapolis

The Superintendent and all officers in his department are appointed


by the Governor. (Ch. 551, 1906.)