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veyors making the same, to the register of the land office
for the said shore, to be by him delivered to an examiner,
to be appointed as herein after mentioned, for the said shore;
and if any certificate shall be found defective or imperfect,
the said examiner shall forthwith return the same to the
said register, to be by him transmitted to the surveyor who
made the same, for correction, but if the same shall pass the
examination of the said examiner, the said examiner shall
deliver it to the register of the land office of the said eastern
shore, to be by him recorded in a proper and sufficient
book, to be kept by him for the purpose of recording all such
certificates, which it shall be his duty to do immediately after
patent shall issue thereon, and not before; and the register of
the said land office, (after the payment of the purchase or
caution money which may be due upon any certificate to the
treasurer of the said shore,) shall make out a grant or patent,
and shall present the same to the judge of the land office for
the eastern shore, to be appointed as herein after directed, for
his approbation, and the same being approved by him, and so
certified, shall be transmitted by the said register, at his own
proper expense, to the chancellor for his attestation, and being
attested by him, and signed by the governor for the time being,
the seal of the state shall be thereupon annexed, the cost and
expense of which seal shall be paid by the register of the land
office on the eastern shore, in the same manner as is now or
may hereafter be directed by law, which sum, so paid by the
said register, together with the sheriff's commission for collec-
tion, may be collected from the owner of the patent by the said
register, in the same manner as officers' fees are by law directed
to be collected ; and every grant or patent so obtained shall,
immediately thereafter, be recorded in the land office for the
eastern shore, in a proper and sufficient book, to be kept for the
purpose of recording all such grants or patents.
By ch. 88, no original certificate of survey or resurvey is to be received
in the land office unless passed by the examiner-general.
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SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That on or before the said first
day of March next, the governor, with the advice of the coun-
cil, shall be authorized to appoint and commission one fit and
proper person, who shall reside at Easton, in Talbot county, to
be the examiner for the eastern shore, who shall examine, and
either pass or reject, any certificate delivered to him agreeably
to the present or future rules and directions established or to be
established for the government of the land office of each respec-
tive shore, and according to such of them as the case may
require, and in case of refusal, death, disqualification or resig-
nation, of any person so appointed as aforesaid examiner of the
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