ART. 54] LAND OFFICE. 397

ARTICLE LIV.

LAND OFFICE.

Commissioner — Powers and Duties. 11. Monies due the State on account of public lands, how payable. 14. Extracts of deeds transferred from clerks of courts to be filed and bound. Appropria- tion therefor. Such extracts to be indexed. Comptroller's warrants therefor. 16. Appropriation of one thousand dollars annually for such costs. 34. Warrant for taking up vacant or escheated land. 26. Warrants — common; special; proclamation; cost of such

30. Surveyor's return to land office. Patent to be issued. 32. Warrant to be executed within six months. No renewal of escheat warrant after six months. 33. Payment for vacant or escheat land. 33 A. Amount due the State to be a lien upon the land surveyed. Proceedings to enforce such lien. 30. Certificate of survey to be re- turned within six months.

Commissioner-Powers and Duties.

1894, ch. 191.

11. All moneys payable to the State on account of the public
lands shall be paid to the commissioner of the land office, whose
receipt therefor shall be a good acquittance to the party paying
the same, and the said commissioner shall keep an accurate
account of all such payments in a book kept for the purpose, and
shall account semi-annually, on the thirty-first day of March and
the thirtieth day of September, with the comptroller, on oath,
and pay over to the treasurer all such moneys so received.

Ibid.

14. He shall receive and carefully file among the records of
his office all extracts of deeds transferred to him by the clerk of
the Court of Appeals, under said act of eighteen hundred and
seventy-four, chapter sixty-six, and all such as shall be transmit-
ted to him by the clerks of the circuit courts for the counties and
the clerk of the Superior court of Baltimore city, and when he
shall receive a sufficient number of such extracts from the same
county to form a record book of the proper size, he shall cause