MARVIN MANDEL, Governor                        773

[None of] The employees [directory and supervisory personnel]
of the Office, except the Director and Deputy Director, shall be sub-
ject to the provisions contained in Article 64A of the Code, title
"Merit System."

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1969.

Approved April 23, 1969.

CHAPTER 307
(House Bill 448)

AN ACT to repeal and re-enact, with amendments, Section 17 (b)
of Article 54 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, (1968 Replace-
ment Volume and 1968 Supplement), title "Hall of Records,"
amending the laws concerning warrants for land patents in order
to correct an error therein.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That Section 17(b) of Article 54 of the Annotated Code of Maryland,
(1968 Replacement Volume and 1968 Supplement), title "Hall of
Records," be and it is hereby repealed and re-enacted, with amend-
ment, to read as follows:

Land Patents
17.

(b) Contents of warrant.—When an application has been filed,
the Commissioner shall issue his warrant to the surveyor named
in the application. The warrant shall recite the name and address
of the applicant, the date on which the application was filed, the
nature of the request made in the application, and a description of
the alleged vacant land and/or the land to be resurveyed as described
in the application. The warrant shall authorize and direct the sur-
veyor to lay out and carefully survey the vacant land and/or to
resurvey the land described therein. It shall enjoin the surveyor to
prepare an accurate plat and description by metes and bounds of
the alleged vacant land and/or land to be resurveyed; to run no
lines within the lines of any former patent; to correct any errors
in the original survey of any land to be resurveyed; to compute the
area of any vacant land comprehended within the description and
plat so prepared; and to return his certificate thereon to the Com-
missioner within six months from the date of the warrant. The
warrant shall be signed by the Commissioner and his seal affixed
thereto.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect
July 1, 1969.

Approved April 23, 1969.