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tions to said land by the recession of said water, whether here-
tofore or hereafter formed or made by natural causes or other-
wise, in like manner and to like extent as such right may or
can be claimed by the proprietor of land bounding on water not
navigable.

8. The proprietor of land bounding on any of the navigable
waters of this State, is hereby declared to be entitled to the ex-
clusive right of making improvements into the waters in front
of his said land; such improvements, and other accretions as
above provided for, shall pass to the successive owners of the
land to which they are attached, as incident to their respective
estates. But no such improvement shall be so made as to inter-
fere with the navigation of the stream of water into which the
said improvement is made.

9. No patent hereafter issued out of the Land Office shall
impair or affect the rights of riparian proprietors, as explained
and declared in the two sections next preceding this section,
and no patent shall hereafter issue for land covered by navigable
waters.

ARTICLE LV.

Librarian.

The Act of 1862, oh. 15, repeals the Act of June 21, 1861, ch. 47, and also sections
11, 12, 13, 14, 16 of this Article, and substitutes certain provisions therefor, which
will be found under the title Governor.

ARTICLE LVI.

The Act of 1862, ch. 218, amends and re-enacts section 1 of this Article, as follows:

SEC. 1. All licenses shall be granted by the clerks of the Cir-
cuit Courts of the counties and the clerk of the Court of Com-
mon Pleas in the city of Baltimore, except where a different