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and thereupon such clerk shall issue fieri facias against the
lands and tenements, goods and chattels, of such patentee, to
raise the money due on such patent; and the lands granted by
such patent shall be liable, in whosever hands it may be, to be
taken in execution, to satisfy the sum due on such patent ; and
the owners of certificates already made or returned, shall pay
the sum of one shilling and eight-pence current money per
acre ; and the treasurer for the western shore, for improvements
on cultivated land, shall receive their actual value in current
money, and for escheat lands he shall receive two-thirds of its
real value in current money ; and common or special warrants
may issue from the land office on the western shore for any
deficiency in any grant, on such deficiency appearing on a cer-
tificate of resurvey, and also in the case of caution money paid
and the grant or certificate vacated ; and any common warrant,
or special warrant for vacant cultivation, already issued, may be
renewed within six months hereafter, and shall be executed
within one year after such renewment ; and the treasurer for
the western shore shall have the care and possession of all the
debt-books and other papers relative to the revenue of the late
proprietaries, and the bonds given by the said treasurers shall
be answerable for the faithful discharge of their office, and com-
pliance with the directions of this act.
*By 1823, ch. 160, vacant lands in Allegany county, upon paying one
shilling and three pence; and by 1827, ch. 201, in Washington county, by
paying twenty-five cents.
By November, 1788, ch. 44, sec. 13, lands then vacant, and to affect
which no warrant had issued, were declared liable to be taken up at the
rate of three shillings and nine-pence per acre, payable in the proportions,
and within the time, required by this act; and by 1791, ch. 85, sec. 8,
vacant lands in Allegany county may be taken up at two shillings and six-
pence per acre, one-half to be paid at the time of obtaining the warrant,
and the other on the return of the certificate.
By 1795, ch. 61, sec. 11, a similar provision is made as to the eastern
shore, under certain restrictions therein mentioned.
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Titles
saved, &c.
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SEC. 5. Whereas sundry persons, with the consent of the
late proprietary, or his agents or stewards, had surveys made
within the reserves, with intent to obtain leases thereon ; Be it
enacted, That the equitable title of persons to such surveys
shall be saved, and only the reversion of the state shall be
liable to sale, in such manner as the general assembly shall
direct.
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Time for
compound-
ing, &c.
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SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the time for compounding
for all vacant lands hereafter to be surveyed shall be within
one year from the date of the warrant, and all persons having
surveys already made shall compound thereon on or before the
first day of May next, and the purchase money on all escheats
shall be paid within one year from the date of the warrant, after
which times respectively warrants may issue to any other per-
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