50 LAND OFFICE. [ART. 54.

legany county, the sum of ten cents per acre, and if the land lies

in Washington county the sum of twelve and a half cents per
acre.

3. Every person who has obtained a warrant to survey va-
cant or escheat land, shall, within one year from the date of such
warrant, pay for the land included in the certificate of survey at
the following rates; For vacant land, not in Allegany or Wash-
ington counties, fifty cents per acre, and if in Allegany county,
twenty cents per acre, and if in Washington county twenty-five
cents per acre, and shall in addition pay the value of any im-
provements there may he on any such vacant land, but there
shall be deducted from the purchase money aforesaid the sum
which the party paid upon obtaining the warrant, and for land
which has escheated two-thirds of the real value of the same.

4. If any person shall fail to pay within one year, as required
by 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.

5. The person who first applies to the Commissioner of the
Land Office for a warrant during business hours shall be enti-
tled to the same upon paying the usual fees and caution money.

6. Every certificate of survey shall be returned to the Land
Office within one year from the date of the warrant, but a war-
rant may be renewed within a year from its date, but not to
affect the rights which any. other person may have acquired in the
meantime; this not to apply to escheat warrants.

The Act of 1862, ch. 129, adds the following sections

7. Whereas, Doubts are entertained in regard to the extent of
the rights of proprietors of land bounding on navigable waters,
to accretions to said land, and to extend improvements into said
waters; for the purpose of solving such doubts, therefore, The
proprietor of land bounding on any of the navigable waters
of this State, is hereby declared to be entitled to all accre-