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Maryland Manual, 1935
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8 MARYLAND MANUAL.

COMMISSIONER OF THE LAND OFFICE—Annapolis
HALL OF RECORDS BUILDING
College Avenue and St. John’s Street
(All Terms Expire 1937)
Name Postoffice.
Commissioner:
Edgar F. Czarra . Hyattsville

Chief Clerk:
Arthur Trader . .
Principal Clerk:
Holland P. Watts .
Senior Clerks:
Malcolm W. Waring - St. Margarets
Edward S. Lockwood.... .. . Annapolis
Allison C. Trader.. -

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.) All clerks are under the
Merit System.

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 dis-
putes 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 Ameri-
can 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 extracts of
deeds from the whole State.

Duplicate records of all deeds, mortgages and releases of mortgages
throughout the State are filed in the Land Office, and it is the duty of
the Commissioner to have them properly bound and indexed.
Photostating and blue printing done for a small charge.


SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS—
Annapolis
Name Postoffice.
Superintendent:
Philip A. Myers - .....Severn
The Superintendent and all officers in this 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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