Pennsylvania Act 1810-2 — PUBLIC LANDS - LAND OFFICE - FEES

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PUBLIC LANDS - LAND OFFICE - FEES
                Act of Dec. 25, (1809) 1810, P.L. 2, No. 2            Cl. 68
                                  AN ACT

     Supplementary to the act entitled "An Act, abolishing the
        Offices of Receiver General and Master of the Rolls, and
        transferring the duties therein performed to other offices
        and for other purposes: passed the twenty-ninth day of March,
        one thousand eight hundred and nine.
        Section 1.  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
     Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General
     Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the
     same, That from and after the passing of this act, no fee shall
     be received in the Surveyor General's office for filing and
     directing a warrant, and that the whole amount of the money to
     be paid on issuing, filing and directing the same, shall in no
     case exceed the sum of four dollars and fifty cents.
        Section 2.  And be it further enacted by the authority
     aforesaid, That in all applications at the land office for
     warrants, hereafter to be granted by the state, the person
     making application or his agent, may at their own election, pay
     the interest on the purchase money accrued previously to the
     date of the warrant, either at the time the purchase money shall
     be paid, or after the return of survey shall have been made and
     before the issuing of the patent.
        Section 3.  And be it further enacted by the authority
     aforesaid, That in all cases of warrants issuing hereafter,
     where the return of survey shall have been previously made on
     proprietary locations, and whereon a warrant commonly called a
     warrant of acceptance shall issue, the price of said warrant
     shall be two dollars.
        Section 4.  And be it further enacted by the authority
     aforesaid, That in all applications made at the land office for
     patents, previous to the commencement of the operation of the
     act to which this a supplement, and where a part of the fees was
     paid, the Secretary of the land office is hereby authorized and
     directed to deduct the same from the price of the patent, and to
     issue the patent on the payment of the balance into the
     treasury.
        Section 5.  And be it further enacted by the authority
     aforesaid, That so much of any act or acts as is altered or
     supplied by the provisions of this act, be, and the same is
     hereby repealed.