| CHARLES GOLDSBOROUGH, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
the commissioners appointed as aforesaid, are required to report
their proceedings in virtue of their appointment and authority, to
the general assembly of this state, at the session next after the same
shall have been concluded, for confirmation or rejection. |
1818.
CHAP. 206. |
2. AND whereas, sundry citizens of this state
may hold lands
in virtue of patents granted by the commonwealth of Virginia, before
the divisional line shall have been settled and adjusted between
the two states, and as it is proper that all inhabitants on either side
of the boundary line, so to be settled and adjusted, who shall have
obtained patents for their lands in Virginia or Maryland, should
have their titles confirmed in which ever state they may happen to
fail, BE IT ENACTED, That any person or persons holding lands
within the limits of this state, which shall have been granted and
patented by Virginia before the settlement and adjustment of the
said divisional line, and which, before running and settling the
divisional line aforesaid, shall have been considered as lying within
the limits of Virginia, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, but
which by the settlement and adjustment of the said divisional line
shall be found to lie within this state, shall be at liberty to take out
and receive patents from the land office of this state; and after the
confirmation of the settlement and adjustment of the said divisional
lines as aforesaid, the register of the land office of the western shore
is hereby empowered and directed, on application of any of the
above described land-holders, and upon their producing their Virginia
patents, or authenticated copies, which shall be lodged in the
land office, to grant patent or patents for the lands expressed in
such original grant or grants, and the person or persons thus receiving
patents in exchange shall not be liable to pay any purchase
or caution money, or be liable to any charge or demand whatsoever,
except the common fees of office. |
Persons holding
lands within limits
of this state,
which have been
patented in Virginia,
&c. to take
out patents from
land office of this
state.
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3. PROVIDED NEVERTHELESS, AND BE IT ENACTED,
That the
right, title and estate, acquired by any person or persons of in and
to any such lands, under and in virtue of any kind of grant from
the proprietary of Maryland, or from this state, prior to the right,
title or estate acquired by any person or persons claiming under a
grant from Virginia, shall prevail; and in all and every case the
prior title acquired by any person or persons in and to any such
lands, under any grant or patent, whether granted by Virginia, or
Maryland, or by or under either of them; shall prevail and have
the preference. |
Rights acquired
prior to those
claiming under
grants from Virginia,
to prevail. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That no such grant as
aforesaid shall
extend, or be deemed, construed or taken to extend, to the right of
any grantee or grantees, and those claiming under them, to any
lands, tenements, hereditaments, which are situate, lying or being
within this state, which have been at any time and in any manner
heretofore granted by or under the authority of the late proprietaries,
or by this state, and are now in the actual possession or occupation
of all, every of any of the tenants or occupiers of the said
lands, hereditaments and premises, nor to the estate, right, title
or
interest, of such tenants or occupiers, or any of them, in or to the
said lands and premises, or any part thereof, but it shall and may
be lawful to and for all and every of such tenants and occupiers of
the said lands and premises, and every part thereof, their and every
if their heirs and assigns, from time to time, and at all times hereafter, |
No such grant to
extend to right of
any granter, &c.
situate within this
state. |
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