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JOHN EAGER HOWARD, Esq; Governor.
lands, the said petitioner, James Gittings, had his tract of land, lying
in the said
county, called Gittings's Choice, resurveyed by one of the special surveyors,
including
part of a lease and the vacancy purchased, amounting in the whole to
nine hundred and one acres, by the name of Gittings's Choice Resurveyed,
as by
the certificate appears; and the said John Merryman also having had his
tract
of land, lying in the said county, called Hereford, resurveyed by the county
surveyor,
including a lease and vacancies purchased, amounting in the whole to one
thousand and thirty-eight acres and three quarters of an acre, by the
name of
Hereford Resurveyed, as by the certificate appears; and that the said James
Gittings
and John Merryman could not obtain patents for their said lands, because
the county surveyor could not legally include in his survey any lease or
vacant
lands sold by the intendant, neither could the special surveyors resurvey
patent
lands; and the said John Gorsuch finding the difficulties aforesaid, had
declined
making any survey, until some effectual mode for making the said surveys
should
be pointed out, and praying relief in the premises; and it appearing to
this general
assembly, that the said petitioners ought to be relieved, agreeable to
the
prayer of their said petition; |
1788.
CHAP.
XXXVII. |
II. Be it enacted,
by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the said resurvey
so made by the special surveyor aforesaid for the said James Gittings of
his tract
of land, including part of a lease and the vacant land purchased by
him as aforesaid,
and the said resurvey so as aforesaid made by the said county surveyor
for
the said John Merryman of his tract of land aforesaid, including the lease
and
vacancies purchased by him as aforesaid, as certified by the said surveyors
respectively,
be taken and received in the land office as regularly surveyed and returned,
and that patents be granted to the said James Gittings and John Merryman
for their said lands contained in their respective resurveys accordingly. |
Resurveys
made to be
received, &c. |
III. And be
it also enacted, That the said John Gorsuch may have his tract
of land, in Baltimore county aforesaid, resurveyed by the surveyor
of the said
county, and therein include any leased or vacant land purchased as aforesaid;
and
that the said resurvey, so to be made by him, shall be duly certified and
returned
by him to the land office, and that thereupon the same shall be taken and
received
in the said office as regularly surveyed and returned, and that a patent
be
granted thereupon to the said John Gorsuch for the lands contained in the
said
survey accordingly. |
J. Gorsuch
may have his
land surveyed,
&c. |
IV. And be it
also enacted, That where any leased or vacant lands have been
sold by the intendant aforesaid, and have been purchased by persons under
the
same circumstances as aforesaid, that it shall and may be lawful for the
county
surveyor in any county of this state, to resurvey the tract of land
belonging to the
respective purchasers lying contiguous to the said leased or vacant land,
and include
the said leased or vacant land in such resurvey; which resurvey duly made,
certified and returned, by the said county surveyor to the land office,
shall be received
and accepted of as duly made and returned, and be patented accordingly
on
the payment of the purchase money, and the usual expences attending the
same. |
County surveyor
to resurvey
certain
lands, &c. |
V. And be it
enacted, That any certificates and plots of survey made by surveyors
under the appointment of the late intendant of the revenue, or the governor
and council, which shall have been or may be returned to the register of
the
land office for the western shore on or before the first day of December
next, shall
be received, and being passed by the examiner-general, be of the same
validity as
if they had been executed and returned agreeably to the times mentioned
in acts
heretofore providing in such cases. |
Certificates,
&c. returned,
made valid,
&c. |
CHAP. XXXVIII.
A Supplement to the act, entitled, An act to vest certain powers
in the governor and council. |
Passed December
23. |
WHEREAS by the ninth section of the act of assembly,
entitled, An
act to vest certain powers in the governor and the council, passed at
November session, seventeen hundred and eighty-five, the governor |
Preamble. |
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