900 LAND OFFICE. [ART. 54.

ing his demand and application, be entitled to demand and recover
three years' back rent, and no more, (in addition to any renewal
fine that may be provided for in the lease,) before executing or
causing to be executed such renewed lease, and the tenant may
plead this section in bar of the recovery of any larger or greater
amount of rent.

1884, ch. 502.

26. Whenever there has been no demand or payment for
more than twenty consecutive years of any specific rent reserved
out of a particular lot, or any part of a particular lot, under any
form of lease, such rent shall be conclusively presumed to have
been extinguished, and the landlord shall not thereafter set up
any chum thereto, or to the reversion in the lot out of which it
issued, or have the right to institute any suit, action or proceed-
ing whatsoever to recover said rent or said lot; but in case such,
landlord shall be under any legal disability when such period of
twenty years of non-demand or non-payment shall expire, he shall
have two years after the removal of such disability within which,
to assert his rights; provided, however, that coverture shall not
be considered a disability within the provisions of this and the
next preceding section, and that no retroactive effect shall be
given to said sections, and the period of limitations herein pre-
scribed shall begin to run only from April 8, 1884.

ARTICLE LIV.

LAND OFFICE.

Commissioner — Powers and Duties. 1. Commissioner a court of record, 2. Clerk 3. Summons for witnesses; taking depositions 4. Docket. 6. Papers to be recorded.

6. Fees for recording. 7. Seal 8 Chancery records and ante-revolu- tionary papers. 9 Copies of chancery proceedings; fees 10. Bond.