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LAND office. [ART. 16.

such improvement shall be so made as to interfere with the navigation
of the stream of water into which the said improvement is made.

1862, c. 129.
Patents not to
affect rights of
riparian pro-
prietors

40. No patent hereafter issued out of the Land Office shall impair
or affect the rights of riparian proprietors, as explained and de-
clared in the two sections next preceding this section, and no patent

No patent for
land covered by
navigable
waters

shall hereafter issue for land covered by navigable waters.

Art 52, s 4
Const art 7, s 4
1854, c 149, s 3
To certify
copies and pro-
ceedings of the
late Court of
Chancery in his
possession

Fees

KEEPER OF THE CHANCERY RECORDS.

4: 1. The said commissioner of the Land Office may certify copies
and proceedings of the Court of Chancery in his possession, and
where such certificates are required to be under seal, he shall affix
his seal of office, and he shall charge the same fees for such services
as the clerks of the Circuit Courts charge for similar services.

Id s 5
1854, c 149, s 4,
1850, c 132, s 4
To transmit
unfinished pro-
ceedings
5 Md 237, 140,
8 Md 822, 9 Md
73, 11 Md 74,
17 Md 239, 260

4: 2. He shall, without unnecessary delay, transmit to the Circuit
Courts for the several counties, and the Circuit Court of Baltimore
city, all the cases and proceedings in the said court undisposed of
and unfinished, at the expense of the State, whether applied for by
the counsel of the parties or the parties themselves, or not.

LAND RECORDS AND EXTRACTS OF DEEDS.

1874, c 66
Custody of land
record, papers
and extracts.

4, 3. The commissioner of the Land Office shall have custody of
all books containing deeds and transfers of soldiers' lots, and all
other land record books and papers, including extracts of deeds
removed and transferred to his office by the clerk of the Court of
Appeals, by virtue of the act of Assembly of 1874, c. 66. and of all
the other extracts of deeds which shall be received by him, and shall

To give certified
copies thereof
and make
searches
Fees.

give certified copies of such deeds and extracts, and make searches
for the same when so required, and shall receive and retain therefor
fees at the same rate now charged for copies of and searches for
other papers in his office.

1874, c 66, s. 5,
1876, c 257
To receive and
file extracts of
deeds trans-
mitted and form
record book

44. The said commissioner shall receive and carefully file among
the records of his office all extracts of deeds transferred to him by
virtue of the act of Assembly of 1874, c 66, and all such as shall
be transmitted to him by the clerks of the Circuit Courts of this
State; and when he shall have received a sufficient number of such
extracts from the same county to form a record book of the proper
size, he shall cause the same to be carefully indexed and well and
substantially bound in leather, and placed among the records of his
office; and the comptroller of the treasury is hereby directed to
issue his warrant for such sum or sums of money as from time to

Indexing

time may be necessary for the cost of such indexing and binding
upon the certificate of the correctness of the same given by the said
commissioner of the Laud Office; and for the said indexing there
shall be allowed and paid the same rates allowed by law to the clerks
of the Circuit Courts for similar services.
As to " military lots westward of Fort Cumberland, " under act of
1788, c. 44, see 41 Md. 108, 39 Md. 288; 33 Md. 95; 27 Md. 604.