COMMISSIONER OF THE LAND OFFICE—Annapolis.

(All Terms Expire 1931)

Name. Postoffice.

Commissioner:
George C. Peverley Mechanicsville

Chief Clerk
Arthur Trader . .. Annapolis

Assistant Clerks:

Edward Phelps .. ... . .. ...... Annapolis
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 warrants
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.

Duplicate record of all deeds, mortgages and releases of mortgages
throughout the State are filed here, and it is the duty of the Commis-
sioner to have them properly bound and indexed.

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.)