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CHAPTER 532.
AN ACT to repeal Section 33 A of Article 54 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland, title ;'Land Office,"
added by Chapter 191, passed at the January Session of
1894, and to re-enact the same with amendments.
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CHAP. 582.
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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of
Maryland, That section 33 A of Article 54 of the Code of
Public General Laws of Maryland, title "Land Office," added
by chapter 191, passed at the January session of 1894, be and
the same is hereby repealed and re-enacted, so as to read as
follows :
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Repeal and
re-enact.
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33 A. The amounts due the State upon any certificates of
survey for fees and for composition or purchase money and
the value of improvements are hereby declared to be a lien
upon the land surveyed ; and the Commissioner of the Land
Office is authorized, in his discretion, whenever the amount
involved justifies it, to enforce said lien either by appropriate
action in the name of the State in a Court of competent juris-
diction, or by a sale of the certificate of survey, which sale
shall be conducted in the following manner : He shall first
give notice in writing to the party in whose name said certifi-
cate was returned or to the assignee thereof, that unless the
amount of the fees, composition or purchase money and valuo
of improvements due on said certificate is paid within the time
specified in such notice, not less than sixty days from the date
thereof, the said certificate will be offered for sale, and if the
amount due the State, as aforesaid, is not paid within the
time specified in said notice, the Commissioner of the Land
Office may sell said certificate at public auction, for cash, after
reasonable notice of such sale inserted in some newspaper
published in the county where the land lies, the Commissioner
reserving the right to reject any bid if he deems the price
offered inadequate ; and the purchaser of such certificate shall
be entitled to a patent thereon upon the payment of the price
bid and the fees for patent, in the same manner as an assignee
of the certificate would be entitled to patent undeV the rules
of the land office, upon exhibition of the proof of assignment.
This section to apply only to those cases in which more than
one year has elapsed since the date of the warrant ; and noth-
ing herein contained shall prevent any person from obtaining
a proclamation warrant on such certificate as fully as if this
section had not been enacted. If the amount involved does
not justify in proceeding as above, the Commissioner, after
giving at least two months' notice in writing to the owner of
the certificate of the amount due thereon for fees and compo-
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Declared to
be a Uen
upon land
surveyed.
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