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money per acre; and the person who returns a certificate under such warrant,
shall also pay to the treasures respectively, within one year from the time of
taking out such warrant, four shillings per acre for every acre of vacancy included
in such certificate, so that seven shillings and six-pence current money per acre
be paid to the state, for every acre of vacant land in any manner granted under
warrants hereafter to be taken out; and no patent shall be delayed or denied on
account of the second payment aforesaid not being made, but the register aforesaid
shall, upon making out every patent including vacant land, endorse the sum
due, or to become due thereon, and shall also deliver an account of the sum due,
or to become due on every patent, and the time when the warrant was taken out,
to the treasurer of the western shore, to be entered in a book to be kept for that
purpose; and on failure of payment at the day on which the sum due on any patent
shall be payable, the treasurer shall and may lodge with the clerk of the general
court, or the clerk of any county court where such patentee resides, a particular
of the sum due by such patentee, and thereupon such clerk shall issue fieri
facias against the lands and tenements, goods and chattels, or such patentee, to
raise the money due on such patent; and the lands granted by such patent shall
be liable, in whosoever hands it may be, to be taken in execution, to satisfy the
sum due on such patent; and the owners of certificates already made or returned,
shall pay the sum of one shilling and eight-pence current money per acre; and
the treasurer for the western shore, for improvements on cultivated land, shall
receive their actual value in current money, and for escheat lands he shall receive
two thirds of its real value in current money; and common or special warrants
may issue from the land-office on the western shore for any deficiency in any
grant, on such deficiency appearing on a certificate of resurvey, and also in the
case of caution money paid and the grant or certificate vacated; and any common
warrant, or special warrant for vacant cultivation, already issued, may be renewed
within six months hereafter, and shall be executed within one year after such
renewment; and the treasurer for the western shore shall have the care and possession
of all the debt books and other papers relative to the revenue of the late
proprietaries, and the bonds given by the said treasurers shall be answerable for
the faithful discharge of their office, and compliance with the directions of
this act.

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