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LAWS OF MARYLAND.

directed, on application of the owners of lots number
thirty-three, thirty-two, thirty-one, thirty and twenty-
nine, or of any one, or any part of any one of the said
lota, to grant a patent to the owner of such lot or part
of any lot, as if no patent had been heretofore granted,
for so much of a tract of land called Point Look Out, as
lies within the lines of the said lots or parts of said lots,
so owned by the person making application, which pa-
tents when granted, shall avail as if made under the
act of seventeen hundred and eighty-two, chapter sixty,
and also as if the same were granted under escheat war-
rants for want of heirs to the person last seized or inter-
ested therein, and also as a confiscation of the same, if
the person last seized or interested therein was a British
subject or otherwise liable to have his property confisca-
ted, at the date of the act of seventeen hundred and
eighty-one, chapter thirty-seven, and to convey all the
interest of the State in and to the said tract of land.

Purchase mo-
ney.

SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That before granting the
said patents provided for and authorised by the third
section of this act, the said commissioner shall be satis-
fied that the purchase money was duly paid to the State
for any lot or part of a lot whose owner shall claim un-
der this act, and for the purposes of this act, the present
occupants claiming title under a deed or deeds of the
said lots, shall be deemed the owners thereof.

Authority to
give legal title.

SEC. 5. And be it enacted, That if the holders of
lots numbers thirty-three, thirty-two, thirty-one, thirty
and twenty-nine, choose to proceed in one petition,
which they are hereby authorised to do, before the com-
sioner of the land office, under the act of eighteen hun-
dred and fifty-two, chapter three hundred and sixty-
one, the said commissioner may grant a patent or patents
for said tract of land, called Point Look Out, which
shall avail so as to give them a complete legal title to
so much thereof as is included in the said several lots.

Fees.

SEC. 6. And be it enacted, That the patents provided
for in this act shall be issued upon the payment of the
usual fees and composition money required and autho-
rised in cases of common warrants without improve
ments.

In force.

SEC. 7. And be it enacted, That this act shall take
effect from and after its passage.