1860.

LAWS OF MARYLAND.

CHAP. 35.

arbitrators to be mutually chosen by the said com-
pany and the said owners respectively.

Construction.

SEC. 13. And be it enacted, That nothing in this
act contained shall be so construed as to authorise
said company or its agents or officers to issue any
scrip or bank note or exercise any banking privi-
leges.

In force.

SEC. 14. And be it enacted, That this act shall
take effect from its passage.

CHAPTER 35.

Passed Jan.
25, 1860.

AN ACT to repeal the seventeenth, nineteenth,
twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh, twenty-eighth and
thirtieth sections of the fifty-third article of the
Public General Laws.

Sections re-
pealed.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of Maryland, That the seventeenth, nineteenth,
twenty-sixth, twenty-seventh, twenty-eighth and
thirtieth sections of the fifty-third article of the
Public General Laws are hereby repealed, and the

Escheat land
— how taken
up.

following inserted in lieu of the same: that in lieu
of the seventeenth section, any person desiring to
take up vacant or escheat lands, shall obtain a war-
rant from the Commissioner of the Land office, di-
rected to the surveyor of the county, in which the
land lies, or to which it may be contiguous, re-
quiring him, his deputy or authorized agent, to
survey the same, and return a certificate of survey
to the Land office within one year from the date of
the warrant, and such warrant may be in the form
heretofore used in the Land office, and may be
either a common or a special warrant, a proclama-
tion or escheat warrant, or a warrant of resurvey,
as may be best suited to the case of the party apply-
ing for the same; that in lieu of the nineteenth
section, any person may obtain a common warrant,
a special warrant, or proclamation warrant, for all
kinds of public or unappropriated lands of this
State, by applying to the commissioner of the Land
office, and by paying the said commissioner the