Pennsylvania Act 1805-78 — PUBLIC LANDS - LAND OFFICE - WARRANTS NOT EXECUTED

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PUBLIC LANDS - LAND OFFICE - WARRANTS NOT EXECUTED
                  Act of Apr. 4, 1805, P.L. 234, No. 78               Cl. 68
                                  AN ACT

     Enjoining certain Duties on the Holders of Land-Warrants not
        executed, and on the Holders of unseated Lands.
        Section 1.  When unexecuted land warrants shall be filed
        It shall be the duty of all persons now holding or that may
     hereafter hold unexecuted land warrants, to file or enter the
     same with the surveyors of the proper district within two years
     after the passing of this act, or within two years after the
     date of such warrants respectively, and on failure thereof, such
     warrant or warrants shall not have any force or effect against a
     warrant of later date, nor against an actual settler on the
     lands called for in such unexecuted warrant.  1805, April 4, 4
     sm.l. 254, sec. 1.
        Section 2.  And be it further enacted by the authority
     aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of all holders of unseated
     lands to file his, her or their title or claim with the
     commissioners of the proper county, within one year from and
     after the passing of this act, or within one year after he, she
     or they shall become possessed of the title or claim to such
     lands, and, on failure thereof, it shall be the duty of the
     county commissioners whenever such lands shall come to their
     knowledge, to assess on said lands four times the amount of tax
     that such lands would have been liable to had they not been
     secreted, and to enforce the collection thereof in the same
     manner that taxes due on unseated lands are or may be assessed
     and collected: Provided always, That nothing in this act
     contained shall be construed as giving any greater validity to
     unexecuted land-warrants than they are now entitled to, nor to
     the detriment of persons under legal disabilities: Provided,
     Such person or persons comply with the foregoing requisitions
     within the time or times limited respectively after such
     disabilty shall be removed.