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the land office directed to the surveyor of the county where the
land lies, requiring him to survey the same and return a certifi-
cate of survey to the land office within six months from the date
of the warrant, and such warrant may be in the form theretofore
used in the land office, and may be either a common warrant, a
special warrant, a warrant of resurvey, proclamation warrant, or an
escheat warrant whichever may be suited to the case of the party
applying for the same.

1894, ch. 191.

26. Any person may obtain a common warrant, special warrant
or proclamation warrant by applying to the commissioner of the
land office, and paying him the sum of twenty-five cents for each
acre mentioned in such warrant.

Ibid.

30. The surveyor shall return to the land office within six
months from the date of such warrant, a certificate of survey and
plot, together with the depositions relating to the possession and
occupancy of the lands resurveyed and proof of the notice by
publication or otherwise given to the owners or occupiers of the
adjacent lands, and upon return of such certificate and proofs, if
no 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 re survey.

Ibid.

32. Every warrant issued out of the land office shall be execu-
ted within six months from the date thereof, and no escheat war-
rant shall be renewed after six months from its date.

Ibid.

33. Every person who has obtained a warrant to survey or
escheat land shall within one year from the date of such warrant,
pay for the vacant land included in the certificate of survey—
fifty cents per acre, and shall in addition pay the value of any
improvements there may be on such vacant land, 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