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Commissioner — Powers and Duties.
1. Commissioner a court of record.
2. Appointment and salary of chief clerk
and assistant clerks.
3. Appointment and salary of clerk to
complete indexing.
4. Summons for witnesses; taking deposi-
tions.
5. Writs, attachments, etc.. to be served
by sheriff.
6. Docket.
7. Papers to be recorded.
8. Fees for recording.
9. Seal.
10. Chancery records and ante-revolu-
tionary papers.
11. Copies of chancery proceedings; fees.
12. Bond.
13. To record certificates and issue pat-
ents.
14. Land records; copies.
15. Maps, records, etc., of shell fish com-
missioners; copies.
16. Extracts of deeds transferred from
clerks of courts to be filed and
bound. Appropriation therefor.
Such extracts to be indexed. Comp-
troller's warrants for costs thereof.
17. Authority of commissioner to continue
indexing land records and deeds.
18. Appropriation of one thousand dollars
annually for such costs.
19. British confiscated lands.
20. Advertisement of intent to apply
under preceding section.
21. If not contested; if contested.
22. Hearing; ex parte determination;
reasons to be filed.
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23. Disputes before commissioner; decree.
24. Disputes in which commissioner is in-
terested.
25. Vacant or escheated land.
26. Special and proclamation warrants;
notice.
27. Where land lies in two counties.
28. Warrant of resurvey to add contigu-
ous vacancy.
29. Warrant of resurvey where owner does
not wish to add contiguous vacancy.
30. Notice of resurvey.
31. Surveyor's return to land office. Pat-
ent to be issued.
32. Escheat warrant.
33. To be executed within six months; no
renewal after six months.
34. Payment for vacant or escheated land.
35. Amount due- State to be lien upon
land surveyed. Proceedings to en-
force such lien.
36. First applicant entitled.
37. Value of land and improvements to
be returned by surveyor; his omis-
sion to be no cause of caveat.
38. Certificate of survey returnable within
six months.
39. Certificate to be recorded if correct;
if incorrect to be corrected by sur-
veyor.
40. When patent shall issue.
41. Caveats; when to be heard.
42. Costs of caveat.
43. Signature of governor; great seal.
44. Rules for conduct of surveyor.
45. Patents from government of Penn-
sylvania.
46. Accretion to land on navigable waters.
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