COMMISSIONER OF THE LAND OFFICE—Annapolis

HALL OF RECORDS BUILDING
College Avenue and St. John's Street

(All Terms Expire 1943)

Name. Postoffice.

Commissioner:

Henry W. Cord............................................................... Landover
Chief Clerk:

Arthur Trader....................................................... Arnold
Senior Clerks:

Malcolm W. Waring. .........................................St. Margarets
Holland P. Watts. .............................. .Odenton
Photostat Assistant:

George B. Garner......................................... Croome
Junior Stenographer:
Carroll P. Roberts............................. Baltimore, Md.

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 confiscated British property.
Questions relating to Provincial Court Deeds, Chancery (Equity)
Records to 1851 and original papers, Debt Books, Rent Rolls, Insolvent
Proceedings and abstracts of Deeds, Mortgages and Releases of Mort-
gages for the Counties and Baltimore City.

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 blueprinting.

SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS

Annapolis

Name. Postoffice.
Superintendent:

R. Chester Cromwell........................ Glen Burnie
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.