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                                THOMAS SIM LEE, Esq; Governor.

supply payable in specific articles making it unnecessary to continue such acts any
longer;

1781.

CHAP.
 XVII.

                                            CHAP. XIX.
A Supplement to the act to raise the supplies for the year seventeen hundred and
                                              eighty-two.

    Directing crop tobacco to be received at 20f, with an allowance of four per cent. for cask, and transfer
not to be received at all.  Any public creditor, on certificates granted under the act to adjust the debts
due from the state, may be paid in bills of credit of the last emission.  These are the most remarkable
provisions.

                                            CHAP. XX.
    An ACT to appropriate certain lands to the use of the officers and
                soldiers of this state, and for the sale of vacant lands.
    WHEREAS there are large tracts of land within this state reserved by
the late proprietaries, which may be applied in discharge of the engagement
of lands made to the officers and soldiers of this state; and
the granting the other vacant lands in this state would promote population, and
create a fund towards defraying the public burthen:
Preamble.
    II.  Be it enacted, by the general assembly of Maryland, That all the lands within
this state, in Washington county, westward of Fort Cumberland, and for
which located warrants have not issued, or surveys been made under common
warrants, and are now bonâ fide the property of any subject of this or any of the
United States, and on which the money has been actually paid, shall be and are
hereby appropriated to discharge the engagement of lands heretofore made to the
officers and soldiers of this state, and the residue to the use of the public, as the
general assembly shall hereafter direct; and no grant shall issue on any survey
made in virtue of such warrants before the order of the general assembly.
Certain lands
appropriated,
&c.
    III.  And be it enacted, That there shall be a land-office held for the western
shore at the city of Annapolis, and for the eastern shore at the place appointed for
holding the general court on that shore, under the direction and care of the registers
of those officers for the time being; and such registers shall have the possession and
care of the extracts of the grants and certificates of their respective
shores, which shall hereafter be made agreeable to the directions in the form of government;
and such registers shall grant warrants for the resurveying, proclamating
or escheating, any land within any of the counties on their respective shores; and
shall also, on the order or titling of the treasurer of their shore, issue common or
special warrants of vacant cultivation, for the surveying any vacant land cultivated
or uncultivated, in any of the counties on their respective shores; and such
warrants shall be directed to, and executed by, the surveyor of the county where
the land to be surveyed or escheated shall lie, who shall return his certificate to
the register of the land-office for the western shore, to be delivered by him to the
examiner-general, who, if the same shall be imperfect, shall return it to the said
register, to be by him transmittted to the surveyor who made the same, for amendment;
but if the same shall pass examination, the examiner shall deliver it into
the land-office for the western shore, and the register thereof, after payment of
the purchase or caution money (if any due) to the treasurer of the western shore,
shall make out a grant, and present the same to the chancellor for his approbation,
and being attested by him, and signed by the governor for the time being,
the seal of the state shall be thereunto annexed.
Land-offices
to be held,
&c.
    IV.  And be it enacted, That either of the treasurers may grant orders or titlings
to the register of the land-office of their respective shore, for common warrants
to take up vacant uncultivated land, or for special warrants to take up cultivated
or improved vacant land, on the payment of three shillings and six-pence current
Treasurer
may grant orders,
&c.
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