LAWS OF MARYLAND.— 1822.

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of the land office the same cannot be taken except by procla-
mation, and that for the whole tract, which prevents numbers
of persons from taking them up, which they otherwise would
do for the purposes of settling on them ; therefore,

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That all certificates of surveys of lands made in Allegany
county since the passage of the act to which this is a supple-
ment, and not compounded upon, and which are noiv liable to
proclamation, be, and the same are on and after the first day of
August next, unless then paid on, made or vacated null and
void, and placed upon the same footing with all other vacant
land in said county, and liable to be effected in the same man-
ner and in any quantity without being bound by or paying any
regard to the aforementioned surveys.

Surveys
vacated.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That all fifty acre lots of the re-
served lands westward of Fort Cumberland, which have not
been allotted to soldiers or sold by the state, nor compounded
upon by settlers, shall be, and they are hereby liable to be
taken, by any person or persons, as all other vacant lands are
in said county of Allegany, and that all such lots which have
been heretofore taken up by any person or persons under any
special or common warrants, and which have been compounded
upon, a complete title for the same shall be vested in such taker
up, or those claiming under him, her or them.

Lots west
of Cumber-
land.

SEC. 3. And be it enacted, That all certificates of surveys of
land made after the passage of this act in Allegany county, and
returned to the land office of the western shore, and which
shall not be compounded upon within twelve months from the
date of such certificate, shall be and the same are hereby de-
clared to be null and void, and the lands therein mentioned,
shall be liable to be taken up again as all other vacant lands
are in said county of Allegany.

CHAPTER 131.

AN ACT to authorize the County Clerks of this State to judge and approve
of Security in cases therein mentioned.

Time limit-
ed for com-
ponnding.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of Maryland,
That the clerks of the county courts of this state be, and they
are hereby authorized and empowered, in their respective coun-
ties, to judge and approve of the securities in appeal bonds, writ
of error bonds, bonds for the removal of proceedings by writ of
certiorari, and injunction bonds, in the same manner that the
judges of the county courts of this state are now authorized
and empowered to do, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

Clerks
authorized.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That the clerk shall have, for
every bond by him so approved, twenty -five cents, to be paid
by the party presenting such bond, and to be taxed in the costs
as other charges are.

Compen-
sation.