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912 LAND OFFICE. [ART. 54.

F. G. L., (1860,) art. 54, sec. 34. 1853, ch. 21.

41. All patents shall be signed by the governor, and have
affixed thereto the great seal of the State; and the governor, on
the presentation to him of a patent by the commissioner of the
land office, certified by the said commissioner as proper to be
issued, shall be authorized to sign such patent, and to cause the
great seal to be affixed thereto.

Ibid. sec. 35.

42. The commissioner of the land office may prescribe rules
to regulate the conduct of surveyors in making surveys and
returning certificates and plats; and he shall in all things regu-
late his proceedings by the usages and principles which have
heretofore been established by the practice of the land office, not
inconsistent with this article or the principles of equity.

Ringgold's Lessee v. Malott, 1 H. & J 299 Hammond's Lessee v. Warfield,
2 H. & J. 151 Chisholm v. Perry, 4 Md. Ch. 31. Jones v. Bradley, 4 Md. Ch.
167.

Ibid. sec. 36. 1785, ch 66, sec. 7.

43. Any person holding lands and being in actual possession
thereof in this State, under a warrant and survey, or under a
patent granted by the government of Pennsylvania, before the
divisional line between the two States was fixed, shall be entitled
to receive a patent for such land from the proper authorities of
this State.
Agreement between Lord Baltimore and William Penn.

1862, ch. 129.

44. The proprietor of land bounding on any of the navigable
waters of this State shall be entitled to all accretions to said land
by the recession of said water, whether heretofore or hereafter
formed or made by natural causes, or otherwise, 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.

Williams v. Baker. 41 Md. 527. Goodsell v. Lawson, 42 Md. 348 Linthicum
v. Coan, 64 Md 439.

Ibid.

45. The proprietor of land bounding on any of the navigable
waters of this State shall be entitled to the exclusive right of

 

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