The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1894-05-05

Land Office shall issue patent thereon tf
the person, or his heirs or assigns, who OBJ
tanned such warrant of resurvey.
! 81. Every warrant issued out of the Land
Office shall be executed within six month:
| from the date thereof. and no escheat warrant
shall be renewed after six months from its
date
33. Every person who has obtained a war.
rant to survey escheat land, shall, within
one year from the date Of such warrant, pay
for the vacant land included in the certificate
of survey fifty cents per acre, and shall in
addition pay the value of any improvements
there may be on such vacant land; but there
shall be deducted from the purchase money
aforesaid the sum which the party paid as
caution upon obtaining the warrant and for
land which has escheated two thirds of the
real value of the same and the valne of the
improvements thereon, if any person shall
fail to pay within one year as required by
this and the preceding sections. the land may
be taken up by any other person under a
proclamation warrant or escheat warrant as
the case may be.
&c. Every certificate of survey shall be
returned to the Land Office within six months
from the date of the warrant.
SECTION .. And be IL enacted, That new
section be, and the same is hereby added to
said Article "a, to follow after Section SO, to
be designated as Section 80 A, and to read as
follows:
SO A. The amounts due the State upon
any certificate of survey for fees and for
composition or purchase money and the
value of improvements are hereby declared
to be a lien upon the land surveyed, and the
Commissioner ofthe Land Office is authorized,
in his discretion whenever the amount in
volved justifes it, to enforce said lien either
BY appropriate action in the name of the
State in court Of competent jurisdiction, or
by u sale of the certificate of survey, which
sale shall be conducted in the following man
ner He shall first give notice in writing to
the party in whose name said certificate was
returned, or to the assignee thereof that un-
less the amount of the fees, composition or
purchase money and value of improvements
due on said certificates are paid within the
time specified in said notice, not less than
sixty days from the date thereof, the said Ger
tilicates will be offered for sale, and if the
amount due the State as aforesaid is not paid
within the time specified in said notice, the
Commissioner of the Land Office may sell said
certificate at public auction for cash, after
reasonable notice of such sale inserted in
some newspaper published in the county
where the land lies, the Commissioner reserv.
ing the right to reject any bid, if he deems
the price offered inadequate. and the pur.
chaser of such certificate shall be entitled to
patent thereon upon the payment of the
price bid, and the fees for patent in the same
manner as an assignee of the certificate would
be entitled to patent under the rules of the
Land Office, upon exhibition of the proofs Of
assignment, this section to apply only to those
cases in which more than one year has elapsed
since the date of the warrant, and nothing
herein contained shall prevent amy person
from obtaining a proclamation warrant on
such certificate as fully if this section had
not been enacted.
SECTION 3. And be 1T enacted, That this
Act shall take effect from the date of its pas.
sage.
Approved April 3, 1894.
FRANK BROWN, Governor.
JOHN WALTER SMITH,
President Of the Senate.
JAMES Ii. PRESTON,
Speaker of the House Of Delegates.
We hereby certify that the aioregong is u
correct copy of an Act of the General Assem-
bly, of Maryland, passed January Session,
1894. J. ROGER McSHERRY,
Secretary of the Senate.
B. l.. SMITH,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.