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MARYLAND MANUAL. b by the Courts, where applications are filed with the Governor or this De- partment. In tins as in the matter of applications for conditional pardons (parole) only such cases as are acted upon favorably by •the Commissioner are forwarded to the Governor for review and flnal action. For detailed information of duties and jurisdiction of the Parole Commissioner, see Annotated Code of Maryland (Bagby) Article 41, Section 46-56. COMMISSIONER OF THE LAND OFFICE—Annapolis. (All Terms Expire 1935) Name Postoffice. Commissioner: Vacancy. Chief Clerk: Arthnr Trader Arnold Assistant Clerks: Holland P. Watts Odenton Edward S. Lockwood Annapolis Senior Clerk: Malcolm W. Waring St. Margarets 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. (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 mall, 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 hound and indexed. Photostat copying of any record and blue printing of any plat made in office at small cost. SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS— Annapolis. Name. Postoffice. Superintendent: John R. Phipps Annapolis TIme Superintendent and all officers in his department are appointed by the Governor. (Ch. 551, 1906.) The Superintendent of Public Buildings and Grounds is the custo- dian of the State Capitol, Court of Appeals Building and Executive Mansion in the City of Annapolis. |
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