142 LAND OFFICE. [ART. 54.
ARTICLE LIV.

Land Office.

17 Warrants for vacant or escheat lands 19 Common, special or proclamation warrants, pay for. 26 What to be paid by warrantees of vacant or escheat lands failure to pay. 27 Priority. 29 Return of certificate and renewal of warrant.

37 Owners of land on navigable waters entitled to accretions, &c 39 Owners have exclusive right to make improvements into waters 39 Patents not to affect rights of riparian proprietors no patent for land covered by navigable waters.

1861, c. 3 repeals sections 17, 19, 26, 27 and 29 of this article and enacts the
following in lieu thereof

1861, c. 3, B 1 Warrants for vacant or escheat lands.	SEC. 17. Any person desiring to take up vacant land or lands which have escheated, shall obtain a warrant from the commissioner of the land office,
	directed to the surveyor of the county where the land lies, requiring him to survey the same, and return a certificate of survey to the land office within one year from the date of the warrant and such warrant may be in the form heretofore used in the land office, and may be either a common warrant, a special warrant, a warrant of re-survey, a proclamation warrant or an escheat warrant, which ever may be suited to the case of the party applying for the same.
Ibid. s. 2 Common, spe- cial or procla- mation war- rants, p7 for	19. Any person may obtain a common warrant, special warrant or proclamation warrant by applying to the commissioner of the land office, and paying him (unless the land lies in Allegany or Washington counties) the sum of twenty-five cents per acre for each acre mentioned in such warrant, and if the land lies in Allegany 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.
Ibid s 3 What to be paid by warrantees of vacant or escheat lands	26. 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 land included in the certificate of survey at the following rates : for vacant land not in Allegany or Washing- ton counties, fifty cents per acre, and if in Allegany