LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1781.
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warrants of vacant cultivation, for the surveying any vacant
land cultivated or uncultivated, in any of the counties on their
respective shores ; and such warrants shall be directed to, and
executed by, the surveyor of the county where the land to be
surveyed or escheated shall lie, who shall return his certificate
to the register of the land office for the western shore, to be de-
livered by him to the examiner-general, who, if the same shall
be imperfect, shall return it to the said register, to be by him
transmitted to the surveyor who made the same, for amend-
ment; but if the same shall pass examination, the examiner
shall deliver it into the land office for the western shore, and the
register thereof after payment of the purchase or caution money
(if any due) to the treasurer of the western shore, shall make
out a grant, and present the same to the chancellor for his
approbation, and being attested by him, and signed by the gover-
nor for the time being, the seal of the state shall be thereunto
annexed.
By 1795, ch. 88, no original certificate of survey or resurrey is to be re-
ceived in the land office, unless passed by the examiner-general.
By 1795, ch. 61, the register of the land office on the eastern shore is in
such cases to make out a grant, and present it to the judge of the land office
for the eastern shore, for his approbation, and when approved, to transmit
it to be attested by the chancellor, and signed by the governor.
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SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That either of the treasurers may
grant orders or titlings to the register of the land office of their
respective shore, for common warrants to take up vacant uncul-
tivated land, or for special warrants to take up cultivated or
improved vacant land, on the payment of three shillings and
six-pence current money per acre ;* and the person who returns
a certificate under such warrant, shall also pay to the treasurers
respectively, within one year from the time of taking out such
warrant, four shillings per acre for every acre of vacancy in-
eluded in such certificate, so that seven shillings and six-pence
current money per acre be paid to the state for every acre of
vacant land in any manner granted under warrants hereafter to
be taken out ; and no patent shall be delayed or denied on
account of the second payment aforesaid not being made, but
the register aforesaid shall, upon making out every patent inclu-
ding vacant land, endorse the sum due, or to become due
thereon, and shall also deliver an account of the sum due, or
to become due on every patent, and the time when the warrant
was taken out, to the treasurer of the western shore, to be en-
tered on a book to be kept for that purpose ; and on failure of
payment at the day on which the sum due on any patent shall
be payable, the treasurer shall and may lodge with the clerk of
the general court, or the clerk of any county court where such
patentee resides, a particular of the sum due by such patentee,
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Treasurers
may grant
orders, &c.
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