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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.

1888, art. 34, sec. 46. 1862, ch. 129, sec. 39.

49. No patent hereafter issued out of the land office shall
impair or affect the rights df riparian proprietors, as explained
and declared in the two preceding sections; and no patent shall
hereafter issue for land covered by navigable waters.

Day v. Day, 22 Md. 530. Patterson v. Gelston, 23 Md. 432. Sollers v.
Sollers, 77 Md. 149. Corbett v. Woolford, 84 Md. 426.

1904, ch. 282, sec. 1.

50. The governor shall appoint, by and with the advice and
consent of the senate, three citizens of the State, who shall
constitute a public records' commission, and who shall serve
for two years. They shall serve without pay, save that they
may receive their necessary expenses out of the fund hereby
appropriated. They shall examine into the condition and
completeness of the public records, and report thereon to the
general assembly with such recommendations as they may
deem expedient for the better custody and arrangement and
preservation of -the same.

Ibid. sec. 2.

61. The sum of one thousand dollars annually, or so much,
thereof as may be necessary, for the next two years, is appro-
priated for the use of said commission by the State treasurer.

Ibid. sec. 3.

62. The words public records shall be held to mean any
written or printed book, paper, map or drawing which is
required by law to be preserved, filed or recorded in any office
of the .State, or of any county or municipality, or of any officer
or employe of the State, or of any county or municipality.

Ibid. sec. 4.

53. The paper in all books of record in which are preserved
manuscript entries required to be made by any officer of State,
county or municipality shall be made of linen rags and new
cotton clippings well sized with animal sizing and well finished,
and that the ink and typewriter ribbon used in such books of
records be of a character approved by the commissioner of the
land office.