FRANK BROWN, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

resurvey, a proclamation warrant, or an escheat warrant,
whichever may be suited to the cast; of the party applying for
the same.

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

Cost of
warrant.

30. The surveyor shall return to .the land office within six
months from the date of such warrant, a certificate of purvey
and plot, together with the depositions relating to the posses-
sion 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, it 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 resurvey.

Duty of sur-
veyor.

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

Execution of
warrant.

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 inch 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 and the real value of the improvements
thereon; it any person shall fail to pay within one year, as
required by this and the preceding sections, the land may be
taken up by any other pert on under a proclamation warrant or
escheat warrant, as the case may be.

Cost of
vacant land.

36. Every certificate of survey shall be returned to the land
office within six months from the date of the warrant.

Return of
certificate.

SEC. 2. An be it enacted. That a new section be and the
same is hereby added to said article fifty four, to follow after
section thirty three, to be designated as section thirty-three A,
and to read as follows :

New section.