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and paid to the treasurer of the western or eastern shore, as the
case may be, before such warrant shall issue ; provided, that the
person claiming the said survey or resurvey shall have one day
after the said first day of June, or after the expiration of the
warrant of such survey or resurveys made, or hereafter to be
made, as aforesaid, for a proclamation, to pay and compound on
the same, and no application shall be received by the register of
the land office for the western or eastern shore respectively, until
after such day of pre-emption shall have expired ; provided, that
nothing herein contained shall be taken or deemed to affect the
right of any person who hath already applied for any proclama-
tion warrant, if such person shall take out the said warrant on
or before the first day of April next.

SEC. 11. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of sur-
veyors in returning certificates hereafter, to express the quantity
and quality of the improvements contained on the land included
in the survey or resurvey, and subject to the operation of the
warrant, with his opinion of the value of the same, and no ex-
ception shall hereafter be taken to any certificate of survey or
resurvey made, or which hereafter may be made, by way of
caveat in the land office, on account of improvements not being
returned.

Quantity,
&c. to be
expressed,
&c.

SEC. 12. Provided, That nothing in this act shall be taken
or construed to affect any case now existing on caveat before
the chancellor.

NOVEMBER, 1796.— CHAPTER 6.

Proviso.

A SUPPLEMENT to an ACT, entitled, *an Act relative to the proceedings
in the Court of Chancery, and in the Land Office.
Restricted to a class of cases then existing.

CHAPTER 32.
AN ACT for the preservation of the breed of Fish in Patuxent River.
Repealed by 1811, ch. 169.

CHAPTER 34.

* 1705, ch.
88.

A SUPPLEMENT to the ACT,* entitled, An Act directing the proceedings
against persons guilty of Fornication.
See notes to the original law, ante page 167.

*Nov. 178l,
ch. 13.

WHEREAS, it frequently happens that the fathers of illegiti-
mate children neglect to provide maintenance for such children,
whereby they become chargeable to the county before any pro-
cess can issue to indemnify the county from such charge, and
such remedy, under the existing laws of this state, is frequently
attended with considerable delay ; therefore,
SEC. 2. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That any one justice of the peace within this state is hereby

Preamble.