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LAND office. [ART. 16.
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Collect all State
papers.
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compensation, collect, arrange, classify, have charge of, and safely keep all
papers, records, relics, and other memorials connected with the early history of
Maryland, not belonging to any other office.
ARTICLE XVI.
LAND office.
COMMISSIONER OF THE LAND office.
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1. A court of record, power to punish for con-
tempts, etc
2 Clerk to commissioner.
3 Commissioner may summon and compel
attendance of witnesses, etc
4 Docket of disputed cases
6 Record of proceedings
6 Fees of. commissioner
7 Seal and process
8 Bond of commissioner
9 Moneys payable on account of public lands,
to account for
10 To record certificates and issue patents
11. To issue patents for British confiscated
lands
12 Notice of application to be given
13 If no objection made, patent to issue, if
objection, objections to be filed in writ-
ing
14 Within what time to decide
15. To determine disputes about surveys and
patents
16 Who to act when commissioner disqualified
17 Who may take up vacant land or escheat
land
18 Warrants for vacant or escheat lands
19 Where vacant or escheat lands in different
counties
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20 Common, special, or proclamation warrants,
pay for
21 Warrant of resurvey and adding contiguous
vacancy
22 Warrant for resurvey without adding con-
tiguous vacancy
23 Notice of execution to be given
24 When and how certificate to be returned.
25 When escheat warrant to issue
26 When to be executed
27 When to be paid by warrantees of vacant
or escheat lands, failure to pay.
28 Priority
29 Value of escheat lands and improvements,
bow fixed
30 Return of certificate and renewal of war-
rant
31 Certificates of survey to be examined, cor-
rected certificate
32 When patent to issue
33 When caveat to be determined
34 Commissioner to award costs
35 Patents, how signed and scaled
36 Commissioners to prescribe rules for sur-
veyors
37 When lands on the Pennsylvania line may
be patented
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RIPARIAN RIGHTS
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38. Owners of land on navigable waters en-
titled to accretions, etc
39 Owners to have exclusive right to make
improvements into waters
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40. Patents not to affect rights of riparian pro-
prietors, no patent for land covered by
navigable water
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KEEPER OF THE CHANCERY RECORDS.
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41 To certificate copies and proceedings of the
late Court of Chancery in his keeping,
fees
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42 To transmit unfinished proceedings
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LAND RECORDS AND EXTRACTS OF DEEDS.
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43 Custody of land records, extracts of deeds,
etc, to give certified copies thereof,
searches, fees
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44 To receive and file extracts of deeds trans-
mitted, indexes and bound record books,
coat
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Art 54, 8 1
1853, c 415, s 1
Court of record,
power to punish
contempts, etc
42 Md 348, 30
Md 473.
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1. The commissioner of the Land Office is hereby declared to be a
court of record, with the same power to preserve order, punish
contempts and enforce obedience to his orders and adjudications, as
are possessed by any other court of record.
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