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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

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.

Extracts of
deeds to be
filed.

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
transmitted to him by the clerks of the Circuit Courts of 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 the same to be well and substantially
bound in leather and placed among the records of his office ;
and the Comptroller of the Treasury is hereby directed to
issue his warrant for such sum or sums of money as from time
to time may be necessary for the cost of such binding and for
the purchase of index books, and for the repair and rebinding
of other record books in the land office, upon a certificate of
the correctness of the same given by the commissioner of the
land office, and the sum of one thousand dollars, or so much
thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated annually
for said purposes.

Indexing.

15. He is authorized and empowered to continue the index-
ing of certain land records and extracts of deeds which were
transferred to the land office from the Court of Appeals under
said act of 1874, chapter 66, and such extracts of deeds as
shall be received by him from the clerks of the Circuit Courts
of the counties and the clerk of the Superior Court of Balti-
more city, for which said service there shall be allowed and
paid the same rates allowed by law to the clerks of the
Circuit Courts for similar services; and the comptroller of the
treasury is directed to issue his warrants for such sum or sums
as may from time to time be necessary to meet the cost of such
indexing, upon the certificate of the correctness of the same
given by the commissioner of the land office.

Warrant for
vacant land

24. Any person desiring to take up vacant land or lands
which have escheated shall obtain a warrant from the commis-
sioner of the land office directed to the surveyor of the county
where the land lies, requiring him to survey the same and
return a certificate of survey to the land office within six
months from the date of the warrant, and such warrant may
be in the form theretofore used in the land office, and may be
either a common warrant, a special warrant, a warrant of