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ART. 54.] LAND OFFICE. 148
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county, twenty cents per acre, and if in Washington
county twenty-five cents per acre, and shall in addi-
tion pay the value of any improvements there may
be on any such vacant land, but there shall be
deducted from the purchase money aforesaid the
sum which the party paid upon obtaining the war-
rant, and for land which has escheated two-thirds of
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the real value of the same. 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 per-
son under a proclamation warrant or escheat warrant,
as the case may be.
27. The person who first applies to the commis-
sioner of the land office for a warrant during business
hours shall be entitled to the same upon paying the
usual fees and caution money.
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Ibid s.4.
Failure to pay.
Ibid s. 5.
Priority.
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29. Every certificate of survey shall be returned
to the land office within one year from the date of
the warrant, but a warrant 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.
In force from May 1, 1861.
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Ibid s. 6.
Return of cer-
tificate and
renewal of
warrant.
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1862. c. 129 adds the following sections to this article as sections 37, 38 and 39:
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37. The proprietor of land bounding on any of the
navigable waters of this state, is hereby declared to
be entitled to all accretions to said land by the reces-
sion of said water, whether heretofore or hereafter
formed or made by natural causes or otherwise, in
like manner and to like extent as such right may or
can be claimed by the proprietor of land bounding
on water not navigable.
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1862, c. 129
Owners of land
on navigable
waters entitled
to accretions,
&c.
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38. The proprietor of land bounding on any of the
navigable waters of this state, is hereby declared to
be entitled to the exclusive right of making improve-
ments into the waters in front of his said land ; such
improvements, and other accretions as above provided
for, shall pass to the successive owners of the land to
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Owners hare
exclusive right
to make im-
provements
into waters.
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