Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1894-05-17
mentioned in such warrant


30. The surveyor shall return 10 the
Land Office within six months from the
| date q such warrant a certificate OF survey
and plot. together with the dispositions re.
lating % the possession and occupancy OF
the lands re surveyed. and proof Of the
notice by publication az otherwise given q,
The owners or occupiers of the adjacent
lands, and upon the return of such sertif.
cate and proofs, II nc caveat OF objection
be made within six months after such no.
turn, the Commissioner Of the Lana Office
shall issue patsat there "a 10 the persons,
or his heirs or assigns, who obtained such
warrant Of resurvey.
80. Every warrant issued out of the
Land Office shall he execusec. within six
months from the date thereof, and no
escheat warrant shall be renewed after six
months from It's da,e.
80. Every person who has obtained a
warrant 20 survey or escheat land, shall,
within one year from the date of such war.
rant, pay for the vacant land included i'm
the certificate OF survey fifty cents per acre,
and shall in addition pay the value of any
improvements there may be OF such vacant
land but there shall be deducted from the
purchase money aforesaid the sun which
the party paid rs caution upon obtaining
the warrant and for land which has es.
cheated two.thirds If the real value of the
same and the value Of the improvements
thereon, IL any person shall fail To pay
within one year AS required by this and
the proceeding sections, the land may be
taken up by any other person under
proclamation warrant or escheat warrant
as the case may be.
returned 10 the Land Office within six
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SECTION 2. And be 10 enacted, That n
new section be. ann the same is hereby
added 10 said Article 81. 10 follow after
Section 80, 10 be designated as Section SO
A, and 10 read az follows:
80 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
tn be a lien upon the land surveyed. and
the Commissioner Of the Land Office il
authorized 10 his discretion whenever the
amount involved justifies IL, to enforce said
lien either by appropriate action in the
name Of the State in a court of competent
Jurisdiction, or by sale Of the certificate
of survey, which sale shall be conducted
in the following manner. He shall frt
give notice in writing TO the party in whose
name said certificathe was returned, or 10
| the assignee thereof that unless the amount
Of the fees, composition or purchase money
| and value Of improvements due on said
| certificates are paid within the time speci
| fed In said notice, not less than sixty DAYS
| from the date thereof, the said certificates
will be offered for sale, aud II the amount
due the State as aforesaid Is not paid with
in 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 re
serving the right ~ reject any bid, IL he
deems the price offered inadequate, and the
/ purchaser of such certificate shall be en-
titled TO a patent thereon upon the pay.
ment Of the price bid, and the fees for pat.
| ent, In the same manner as an assignee OF
the certificate would be entitled 10 patent
under the rules OF the Land Office, upon
exhibition Of the proofs OF assignment, this
section to apply only b, 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 proclamation warrant on
such certificate as fully as IL this section
had not been enacted.
SEC, 3. And be IcnacL,d, That this Act
shall take effect from the dsre of its passage
Approved, April 9, 1894.
FRANK BRO WN, Governor.
JOHN WALTER SMITH,
President Of the Senate.
| JAMES ii. PRESTON,
Speaker Of the House Of Delegates.
We hereby certify that The aforegoing Ia
a correct copy Of an Act of the General
Assessbly of Maryland, passed January
Session, 1894.
j. ROGER McSHERRY,
Secretary Of the Senate.
| b. l.. SMITH,
Chief Clerk of the House OF Delegates