Pennsylvania Act 1868-27 — LIENS FOR THE PRINCIPAL INTEREST DUE COMMONWEALTH

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LIENS FOR THE PRINCIPAL INTEREST DUE COMMONWEALTH
                   Act of Apr. 4, 1868, P.L. 60, No. 27               Cl. 68
                               A SUPPLEMENT

     To an act directing the entry of liens for the principal and
        interest due to the commonwealth for lands held by virtue of
        locations or other office titles, approved the twentieth day
        of May, Anno Domini eighteen hundred and sixty-four.

        Section 1.  Surveyor General to make out "land lien dockets"
        In lieu of the descriptive lists provided for in said act,
     (act of 1864, May 20, P.L. 914) it shall be the duty of the
     Surveyor General to make out and forward to the prothonotaries
     of the several counties, lien dockets, to be styled "land lien
     dockets," containing lists of all unpatented and patented lands,
     situate in the counties respectively, upon which there is money
     due the commonwealth, and in all cases where surveys have been
     returned, to enter therein the amount of purchase money,
     interest and all fees due, and said aggregate shall remain a
     lien on such tract until paid or otherwise legally discharged:
     provided, that the several prothonotaries shall be allowed to
     charge the fees now authorized by law when any information shall
     be desired from said records, and for entering any certificate
     under the seal of the surveyor general, setting forth that any
     lien or part of lien against an unpatented tract has been paid,
     shall charge the party presenting such certificate a fee of
     twenty-five cents for entering and filing the same.  1868, April
     4, P.L. 60, Sec. 1.