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LAND office. [ART. 16.

caveat or objection be made within six months after such return,
the commissioner of the Land Office shall issue a patent thereon to
the person, or his heirs or assigns, who obtained such warrant of
resurvey.

Id 9 24
1781, c 20, s 8
When escheat
warrant to
issue

23. Any person may obtain an escheat warrant by application to
the commissioner of the Land Office, unless some other person has
obtained or is entitled to a warrant affecting the land.

Id s 25
1849, c 424, s 2
When to be
executed
22 Md 239

26. Every escheat warrant shall be executed within twelve
months, and no escheat warrant shall be renewed after one year
from its date.

1861, c 3, s 3
What to be paid
by warrantees
of vacant or
escheat lands.

27. Every person who has obtained a warrant to survey vacant
or escheat land, shall, within one year from the date of such war-
rant, pay for the land included in the certificate of survey at the fol-
lowing rates: for vacant land not in Alleghany or Washington coun-
ties, fifty cents per acre, and if in Alleghany county, twenty cents
per acre, and if in Washington county twenty-five cents per acre,
and shall in addition 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 ob-
taining the warrant, and for land which has escheated two-thirds of

Id s 4
Failure to pay

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 person under a proclamation warrant or es-
cheat warrant, as the case may be.

Id B 5
Priority

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

Art. 54, 9 28
1781, c 20, s 9
Value of escheat
lands and im-
provements,
tow fixed

29. The value of all escheat lands and the improvements thereon,
and the real value of any improvements upon vacant land, shall be
returned and certified to by the surveyor, on oath, at the time of
returning his certificate of survey, and the commissioner of the
Land Office shall finally ascertain the value of such land and im-
provements, and receive the money therefor from the party, but the
omission by the surveyor to return such valuation shall in no case
be a cause of caveat.

1861, c 3, s 6.
Return of cer-
tificate and re-
newal of
warrant

30. Every certificate of survey shall be returned to the Land
Office within one j-ear 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.

Art 54, s 30
1795, c 88, s 7.
Certificates of
surrey to be
examined.

31. All certificates of survey returned under this article shall be
examined by the commissioner of the Land Office, and if found to be
correct, shall be by him recorded, and if found to be incorrect, he
shall return them to the surveyor returning the same, or to some
other surveyor as he may order and direct, ordering such sur-

Corrected
certificate.

veyor to correct such certificate, and a corrected certificate shall be
returned to the Land Office within one year from the date of such
order.