1402 LAND OFFICE. [ART. 54

28. Warrants — common; special; proclamation , cost of such. 29. Warrant of resurvey to add con- tiguous vacancy. 30. Warrant of resurvey where owner does not wish to add contiguous vacancy. 31. Notice of resurvey. 32. Surveyor's return to land office. Patent to be issued. 33. Escheat warrant. 34. To be executed within six months; no renewal after six months. 35. Payment for vacant or escheated land. 36. Amount due the State to be a hen upon the land surveyed. Proceedings to enforce such hen. 37 First applicant entitled. 38. Value of land and improvements to be returned by surveyor, his omission to be no cause of caveat.

39. Certificate of survey returnable within six months. 40. Certificate to be recorded if cor- rect; if incorrect to be cor- rected by surveyor. 41. When patent shall issue. 42. Caveats , when to be heard. 43. Costs of caveat. 44. Signature of governor; great seal. 45. Rules for conduct of surveyor 46. Patents from government of Pennsylvania. 47. Accretion to land on navigable waters 48 Improvements into water front on navigable waters. 49. Patent not to affect riparian rights, nor to issue for land covered by navigable water. 50. Public records commission, tenure, duties 61. Appropriation. 52. Meaning of words public record. 53. Kind of paper, ink, typewriter ribbon used and approved.

Commissioner—His Powers and Duties.

1888, art. 54, sec. 1. 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 pos-
sessed by any other court of record.

Proprietaiy v. Dorrell, 1 H. & McH. 2. Proprietary v. Jennings, 1 H. &
McH. 92. Howard v. Moale, 2 H & J. 249 Cunningham v. Browning, 1
Bl. 299. Baltimore v. McKim, 3 Bl 453 Goodsell v. Lawson, 42 Md 348

Ibid. sec. 2. 1872, ch. 289. 1900, ch. 318. 1902, ch. 229

2. He shall have power to appoint a chief clerk who shall
receive a salary of fourteen hundred dollars per annum, and
one assistant clerk who shall receive a salary of twelve hundred
dollars per annum, and two other assistant clerks who shall
each receive a salary of one thousand dollars per annum; and
the sum of four thousand and six hundred dollars, or so much
thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated annually
for said purpose.