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The treasurer of the western shore shall finally ascertain the value of

such land and improvements, and receive the money therefor —

1781, ch. 20, sec. sec. 9, ........

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The treasurer of the eastern shore shall finally ascertain the value of

such lands and improvements on his shore, and receive the money

therefor— 1795, ch. 61, sec. 4, .......

324

Directions respecting applications for warrants on certificates where

the caution money had not been paid to the agent of the late pro-

prietary — November, 1781, ch. 20, sec. 10, .

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No grant shall issue to affect any land which the chancellor on caveat

may adjudge to have been included by the courses of an original

grant, and since excluded by the variation of the compass, unless

to the person holding under the grant originally including such

land— 1781, ch. 20, sec. 12, .......

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The chancellor may, on such adjudication, or on the certificate of the

party claiming under an original grant, order a patent to issue for

confirming to him the lands which shall he determined to have

been originally included in the courses therein expressed — 1781,

ch. 20, sec. 12, ..........

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Oa such patent of confirmation no money shall be paid for the land

or improvements — 1781, ch, 20, sec. 12, .

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Certificates on warrants before the first of March, 1777, directed to lie

in the office three months after the first of July then next, and cer~

tifipates on warrants under the act of November, 1781, ch. 20, or

thereafter to be granted, to lie in the office six months after being

compounded on, after which times respectively grants to issue

without notice as had been required— April, 1782, ch. 38, sec. 2, .

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The surveyor may insert in a certificate any boundary, artificial or

natural, as being at the end of the distance expressed, provided he

shall actually measure such, distance — November, 1781, ch. 20,

sec. 14, ........ ...

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If the length of the line shall not reach the boundary, and the line

shall not have been actually run, such survey shall, on caveat, be

adjudged void, so far as that the land which is excluded hy running

from the end of the course and distance to the end of the next

course and distance, or to the next boundary, if any, shall be liable

to be affected as vacancy — 1781, ch. 20, sec, 14, f

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Every surveyor, before lie enters on the execution of his o/Iice, shall

swear or affirm, that he will not mention any boundary in his cer-

tificate of survey unless he shall actually run and measure the dis-

tance to such boundary, and that the boundary or boundaries by

him returned shall be at the end of the line as expressed, and that

the certificate does not contain more land than certified by him, to

the hest of his knowledge and belief— 1781, ch. 20, sec. 14,

173

The register for the western shore to transmit annually, on or before

the first of October, to the commissioners of the tax of the several

counties, a list of all grants, the name or the grantees and land, and

the quantity of acres, and the date of the certificate ami grunt —

1781, ch. 20, sec. 16, ..........

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