The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1894-05-04

70. 81, 90 anu OD vi [1lllClC III. vi
the Code of Public General Laws of
MARYLAND, and to add new section
to said Article, to be designated as
Section SO A."
SECTION /. Be it enacted by the Gen
,eral Assembly of Maryland, That Sec
lions IL, II, 10, 81, 26. 80, 50, 80 and So
of Article 81, the Code of Public Gen
eral Laws of Maryland, title Land
Office be, and the same are hereby,
repealed and re-enacted, so as to read us
follows:
IL. All monies payable to the State on
account of the public lands shall be paid
to the Commissioner of the Land Office,
whose receipt therefor shall be good
acquittance to the party paving the
same; and the said Commissioner shall
keep an accurate account OF all such
payments in book kept for the pur-
pose, and shall account Semi-annualiy,
on the thirtv-frst day of March, and
the thirtieth day of September, with the
Comptroller, on oath, and pay over to
the Treasurer all such monies so re-
ceived.
IA. He shall receive and carefully file
among the records of his office. all eN-
tracts of deeds transferred to him by the
Clerk of the Court of Appeals unGer
said act of eighteen hundred and
seventy-four, Chapter &c, 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
record book of the proper size, he shall
cause the same to be well and sub
stantiallv 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 NAV be necessary for the cost of
such binding, and for the purchase of
index books and for the repair and re-
binding of other record books in the
Land Office, upon 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.
Is. He is authorized and empowered
to continue the indexing 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 &c, and such eX-
tracts 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 Baltimore City,
for which said service there shall be
allowed and paid the same ratesallowed
by law to the Clerks of the Circuit
Courts for similar services, and the
COMPTROLLER of the Treasury Is directed
l. rtS for SIIru n
sums as NAV from time to time be neces-
sary to meet the cost of such indeXing
upon the certificate of the correctness
of the same given by the Commissioners
of the Land Office.
"a. Any rerson desiring to take up
vacant land or lands which have es-
cheated, shall obtain q warrant from
the Commissioner of the Land Office
directed to the surveyor of the county
where the land lies, requiring him to
survey the same and return Il certificate
of survey to the Land Office within six
months from the date of the warrant,
and such warrant may be in the form
heretofore used in the Land Office, and
NAV be either a common warrant,
special warrant, a warrant OF reSurvey,
a proclamation warrant or an eScheat
warrant, whichever may be suited to the
case of the party applying for the same.
26. Any person may obtain common
warrant, special warrant or proclama-
ton warrant by applying to the Com
missioner of the Land Office and paying
him the sum of twenty-five cents for
each acre mentioned in such warrant.
80. The surveyor shall return to the
Land Office within six months from the
date of such warrant certificate of sur
vey and plot, together with the deposit
lions relating to the possession nd
occupancy of the lands resurveyed, and
proof of the notice by publication or
otherwise given to the owners or occu-
piers of the adjacent lands, and upon
the return of such certificate and proofs,
if no caveat or objection be made within
six months after such return, the Com
missioner of the Land Office shall issue
a patent thereon to the person, or his
heirs or assigns, who obtained such
warrant of resurvey.
81 Every warrant issued out of the
Land Office shall be executed within
six months from the date thereof, and
no escheat warrant shall be renewed
after six months from its date.
SO. Every person who has obtained