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

within one year from the date or Such
warrant, pay for the vacant land in
cluded 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 es-
cheated two-thirds of the real value of
the same and the value of the improve
ments 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 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.
Sec .. And be it enacted, That new
section be, and the same is hereby
added to said Article 81, to follow after
Section So, to be designated as Section
SO \, and to read as follows:
33A. 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 de-
Glazed to be Il lien upon the land sur
viewed, and the Commissioner of the
Land Office is authorized, in his discre
ton, whenever the amount involved
iustifcs it. to enforce said lien either by
appropriate action in the name of the
State in a court OF competent jurlsdlc-
ton, or by sale of the certificate OF
survey. which sale shall be conducted in
the following manner: He shall first
give notice in writing to the party in
whose name said certificate was re-
turned, or to the assignee thereof, that
unless the amount of the fees, compost
ton 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 certiti-
Gates 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 NAV 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 Com missioner reserv-
ing the right to reject any bid, if he
deems the price offered inadequate, and
the purchaser of such certificate shall
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payment of the price bid, and the fees
for patent, in the same manner as an
assignee of the certificate would be en-
titled to patent under the rules of the
Land Office, upon exhibition of the
proofs of assignment, this section to APP
ply only to those cases in which more
than one year has elapsed since the
date of the warrant, and nothing herein
contained shall prevent any person from
obtaining a proclamation warrant on
such certificate as fully as if this sec
ton had not been enacted.
Section s. And be il enacted, That
this Act shall take effect from the date
of its passage.
Approved April 3, 1894.
FRANK BROWN, Governor.
JOHN WALTER SMITH,
President of the Senate.
JAMES II. PRESTON,
Speaker of the House of Delegates.
hereby certify that the aforegoing is
a true copy of an act of the General As
sembly of Maryland, passed at the jan
uary session, 1894.
J. ROGER MCSHERRY,
Secretary of the Senate.
B. L. SMITH,
Chief Clerk of the House of Delegates.