PUBLIC GENERAL LAW.

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The duty of surveyors in returning certificates to express the quantity

and quality of the improvements, with their opinion of their value

—1795, ch. 88, sec. 11, ........

333

No exception shall hereafter be taken to any certificate of survey or

re-survey, by way of caveat in the land-office, on account of im-

provements not being returned — 1795, ch. 88, sec. 11, .

333

The register to make out annually, between the first of March and the

first of May, for the commissioners of the tax of each county, a

list of all certificates made for patents, and all patents — 1797, ch.

99, sec. 37, p. 351 ; 1812, ch. 191, sec. 32, .

1641

The clerk of the general court likewise to forward a list of land aliena-

ted— 1797, ch. 88, sec. 38, ........

351

No caveat shall be entered where composition money is due on a cer-

tificate, unless the party shall make oath or affirmation, that he con-

ceives he has good cause for entering the same, and has pretensions

to the land, or a part thereof, and that the caveat is not entered to

favour the party, by enabling him to prolong the time for payment

of the composition money, or made at his request, or at the request

of another person — 1797, ch. 114, sec. 9,

358

No caveat hereafter entered shall remain in force longer than twelve

months from the entering thereof, unless under the special circum-

stances the chancellor or judge shall so order and direct — 1797, ch.

114, sec. 10, ..........

359

All caveats already entered shall be brought to issue by subpoena, or

order of the chancellor or judge of the land-office, on the applica-

tion of the party, or by submission, on or before the first of Janu-

ary, 1800, unless under the special circumstances the chancellor or

judge shall order a continuance, and after the expiration of the time

so limited or ordered, the said caveats shall be wholly disconti-

nued, and the ordinary proceedings had — 1797, ch. 114, sec. 11, ,

359

A copy of any of the books, papers, entries and proceedings, in pos-

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session of the registers of the land-office, (not being matter of re-

cord,) and by them attested, shall be received in evidence as if the

books, &,c. were produced, if sworn to be true copies — 1798,

ch. 108, ...........

416

Patents how to issue in cases of escheat of a part of lands held in

tenancy in common — 1800, ch. 70, ......

431

In cases of orders for correction by the judge, or when certificates are

found erroneous by the examiner, and the corrected certificate is

not returned within the time limited, the register may issue a land

warrant to the amount of the caution money, and the money paid

for improvements, as if the certificate had been vacated — 1802,

ch. 77, ...........

466

All the land included in any lot or lots westward of Fort Cumberland,

which was laid off into lots under the authority of this state, and

not disposed of, made liable to be taken up as vacant land — 1804,

ch. 105, ...........

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