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ART. 54.] LAND OFFICE. 901
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11. Monies payable on account of
public lands.
12. To record certificates and issue
patents
13 Land records, copies.
14. Deeds transferred from clerks of
courts.
15. Indexing land records, and deeds
transferred
16. Comptroller's warrant for costs of
indexing.
17. British confiscated lands
18. Advertisement of intent to apply
under preceding section.
19. If not contested, if contested.
20. Hearing; ex parte determination;
reasons to be filed.
21. Disputes before commissioner,
decree.
22 Disputes in which commissioner
is interested.
23. Vacant or escheated land.
24. Taking up vacant or escheated
land
25. Where the land lies in two
counties.
26. Warrants — common, special; proc-
lamation, fees
27. Warrant of resurvey, to add con-
tiguous vacancy.
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29 Notice of resurvey
30. Surveyor's return to land office.
31. Escheat warrant
32. To be executed within twelve
months; no renewal.
33. Payment for vacant or escheat
land.
34. First applicant entitled
35. Value of land and improvements
to be returned by surveyor, his
omission to be no cause of caveat
36. Certificate of survey returnable
within a year; warrant re-
newable.
37. Certificate to be recorded, if cor-
rect; if incorrect to be corrected
by surveyor
38. When patent shall issue.
39. Caveats; when to be heard
40. Costs of caveat.
41. Signature of governor; great seal.
42. Rules for conduct of surveyors.
43. Patents from government of Penn-
sylvania.
44 Accretion to land on navigable
waters.
45. Improvements into water front on
navigable waters
46. Patent not to affect riparian nghts,
nor to issue for land covered by
navigable water
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Commissioner of the Land Office—His Powers and Duties.
P. G. L., (1860,) art. 54, sec. 1. 1853, ch. 415, sec. 1.
1. The commissioner of the land office is a court of record,
with the same power to preserve order, punish contempts, and
enforce obedience to his orders and adjudications, as is possessed
by any other court of record.
Proprietary v. Dorrel, 1 H & McH 2. Proprietary v. Jennings, 1 H. &
McH 92. Howard s Moale, 2 H. & J 249. Cunningham v. Browning, 1 Bl.
299. Baltimore B. McKim, 3 Bl. 453. Goodsell v. Lawson, 42 Md. 348.
1872, ch. 289.
2. He shall have power to appoint a clerk, who shall receive a
salary of one thousand dollars per annum.
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