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ART. LIV] LAND OFFICE. 369
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ARTICLE LIV.
LAND OFFICE.
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Commissioner — Powers and Duties.
35. Payment for vacant or escheated
land.
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41. When patent shall issue.
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Commissioner—Powers and Duties.
1904, art. 54, sec. 35. 1888. art. 54. sec. 33. 1860, art. 54, sec. 26. 1861, ch. 3.
1894. ch. 191. 1918, ch. 151.
35. Every person who has obtained a warrant to survey vacant or
escheat land shall within one year from the date of such warrant pay
for the vacant land included in the certificate of survey not less than
fifty cents per acre, or such sum per acre as shall be assessed by the
Commissioner of the Land Office based upon, but not exceeding, the
value of similar land as assessed by the county or city authorities for
land in the vicinity of such vacant land, and shall in addition pay the
value of any improvements there may be on such vacant laud, but there
shall be deducted from the purchase money aforesaid the sum which
the party paid as caution upon obtaining the warrant, and for land
which has escheated two-thirds of the real value of the same and the
real value of the improvements thereon; if any person shall fail to pay
within one year, as required by this and the preceding sections, the land
may be taken up by any other person under a proclamation warrant or
escheat warrant, as the case may be.
See notes to this section in volume 1 of the Annotated Code.
1904, art. 54, sec. 41. 1888, art. 54, sec. 38. 1860, art. 54, sec. 31.
1872, ch. 38, sec. 2. 1918, ch. 135.
41. If a certificate of survey shall be returned within the time
herein prescribed and shall be found to be correct, and the whole com-
position or purchase money has been paid, and such certificate has lain
six months in the land office and no caveat has been entered thereto
within said period of six months, the same shall not thereafter be per-
mitted to be entered, and the person having such certificate returned,
his assignees, devisees or heirs shall be entitled to a patent thereon; or
if the certificate is released by adjudication or by operation of law from
the effect of the caveat, patent shall issue thereon as if no caveat had
been filed.
See notes to section 42.
See notes to this section in volume 1 of the Annotated Code.
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