The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1890-05-23
CHAPTER 513.

AN ACT to provide for the assessment of the
unclaimed military lots and tracts of land
in Allegany and Garrett counties, and for
the collection OF State and county taxes
thereon by selling the delinquent lands and
turning the net proceeds into the State
treasury. .'""Ha .3 ssjA i iHa
WHEREAS, under the acts Of seventeen
hundred and eighty one, seventeen hundred
and eighty-seven and seventeen hundred and
eighty eight, upwards of two hundred tlieus-
and (200,000) acres of "the reserved lands
westward of Fort Cumberland" were laid out
in fifty acre lots and gratuitously awarded TO
the officers and soldiers ofthe Maryland line"
for their services in the revolutionary war;
and, -. 'a. .a- tsf rs aus - l.j-lf
% WHEREAS, it appears from the assessment
books that upwards Of one thousand of these
military lots are not now assessed and never
have paid any State or county taxes during
the past century owing to the difficulty in as
certaining the proper names Of the last own
ers who are not residents of the counties in
which the lots are located and, '''' 'i 'a!i
y" WHEREAS, many of these lots have been
taken up under escheat and other warrant
and patented by the State and subsequently,
disowned by the patentees for the alleged
reason that living, but nonresident heirs of
the soldiers had been discovered therefore,
SECTION i. Be 1T enacted By the GEN
erdl assembly Of Maryland, That the news
papers selected to publish the laws passed at
this session, shall publish the following notice
daily, for thirty days, in all the daily news
papers SO selected, and weekly for ten con-
secutive weeks in all the weekly newspapers
so selected, form of notice to be published)
Notice is hereby given to the legal heirs,
assigns, devisees and representatives of all Of
fcers and soldiers who served in the MARY
land line" during the revolutionary war, that
unless their claims to military lots lying west
ward of Fort Cumberland are legally estab-
lished on, or before the first day Of April,
eighteen hundred and ninety-one, in such
manner as to secure the payment of State and
and county taxes thereon, all their rights
shall be forfeited to the State, and all
such lots as have not been patented or
claimed by legal heirs, shall be advertised
and sold to the highest bidders for cash and
The net proceeds paid into the State trea-
sury. .'- ''
SECTION. 9. Ind be it enacted, That in order
to enable the county authorities to trace and
define the titles to these untaxed lands in time
for the approaching general assessment, that
they or their agent, shall have free access to
the records in the land office of all patents,
certificates Of re-surYeys, indexes, &C, that
in any way affect the title to these unclaimed
and untaxed lands. and that all fees charged to
Garrett county for searches heretofore made
in the land office by Hiram P. Tasker. as
agent for the commissioners Of Allegheny
and Garrett counties, be and the same are
hereby RENTED in consideration of the State
taxes to be hereafter collected annually from
these unclaimed lands. ....... ..--
SECTION 3. Aad be it enacted, That after
the first day of April, eighteen hundred and
ninety -one, the county commissioners and the
collectors of Allegany and Garrett counties
shall be authorized to cause all of said mill