412                             LAWS OF MARYLAND                      CH. 348]

54 of the Annotated Code of Maryland (1964 Replacement Volume);
and

Whereas, This reference was in error as there was no Section
46A; and

Whereas, The intent was to repeal Section 45A of said Article 54,
it now being advisable to correct the error; now therefore,

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 45A of Article 54 of the Annotated Code of Maryland
(1967 Supplement), title "Hall of Records," subtitle "Land Patents,"
be and it is hereby repealed.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Sections 13(a), 14(a),
16(b), 17(b), 19(b), 20(a), 24, and 25 of said Article 54 (1967
Supplement), title "Hall of Records," subtitle "Land Patents," be and
they are hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amendments, to read
as follows:

13.

(a) As used herein the following words shall have the follow-
ing meanings, unless the context requires a different meaning:

(i) "Affidavit" means an oath or affirmation sworn or made
before an officer or other person authorized to administer an oath
or take an affirmation that the matters and facts set forth in the
document to which it pertains are true and complete to the best of
the affiant's knowledge, information and belief.

(ii) "Commissioner" means the [Archivist appointed by the
Hall of Records Commission.] Commissioner of Land Patents desig-
nated in Section 14.

(iii) "County" means and includes each of the twenty-three
counties of Maryland and the City of Baltimore.

(iv) "Land" means any contiguous area, whether cultivated or
uncultivated, within the territorial limits of the State of Maryland,
except that "land" does not include any area covered by navigable
water unless such was included in a patent issued prior to March 3,
1862. "Vacant land" means land for which no patent has issued
and which no person, other than one who hereafter applies for a
patent and those through whom he derives title, has held in posses-
sion for twenty years prior to the filing of a proceeding under this
subtitle.

(v) "Patent" means any valid grant by the State of Maryland of
its interest in and to any vacant, resurveyed, escheat or confiscated
land under any prior law; any grant confirmed by Article 5 of the
Declaration of Rights of the Constitution of Maryland; and any
patent hereafter issued in accordance with this subtitle.

(vi) "Person" means any natural person, partnership, joint
stock company, unincorporated association or society, or municipal
or other corporation of any character whatsoever.

(vii) "Resurvey," whether used as a noun or as a verb in any
form or tense, means and refers to the act of surveying any land