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making improvements into the waters in front of his said land;
such improvements, and other accretions as above provided for,
shall pass to the successive owners of the land to which they are
attached, as incident to their respective estates. But no such im-
provement shall be so made as to interfere with the navigation of
the stream of water into which the said improvement is made.
Goodsell v. Lawson, 42 Md. 348. B. & O. R R. Co. v. Chase, 43 Md. 23.

1862, ch. 129.

46. No patent hereafter issued out of the land office shall im-
pair or affect the rights of riparian proprietors, as explained and
declared in the two preceding sections; and no patent shall here-
after issue for land covered by navigable waters.

Day v. Day, 22 Md. 530. Patterson v. Gelston, 23 Md. 432.

ARTICLE] LV.

LIBRARIAN—STATE.

1. Oath. 2. Bond. 3. Appointment to fill vacancy. 4. Library to be kept in place as- signed. 5. Removal of books, maps, etc 6. Stationery allowed members of assembly. 7. Binding of laws, journals and doc- uments of general assembly, distribution of copies.

8. Remaining copies. 9. Copies to libraries. 10. Distribution to enumerated offi- cials of Maryland reports. 11. Disposition of remaining copies. 12. Appropriation for purchase of books, etc. 13. Rules relative to State library; va- cancy in committee.

P. G. L , (1860,) art. 55, sec. 1. 1852, ch. 172, sec 3.

1. The State librarian shall take and subscribe before the
governor the oath prescribed by the constitution.

Ibid. sec. 2. 1826, ch. 53, sec 3

2. He shall give bond to the State of Maryland in such sum,
and with such security, as the committees of the senate and house
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