Pennsylvania Act 1811-132 — PUBLIC LANDS - LAND OFFICE - WARRANTS, PATENTS AND SURVEYS

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PUBLIC LANDS - LAND OFFICE - WARRANTS, PATENTS AND SURVEYS
                  Act of Apr. 2, 1811, P.L. 222, No. 132              Cl. 68
                                  AN ACT

     To authorize the granting of patents on surveys heretofore made
        and received in the land-office.
        Section 1.  Patents to be issued on surveys in excess of
     warrants
        It shall be lawful for the officers of the land office to
     issue patents in the usual manner, on surveys made, which have
     been heretofore returned and received by the Surveyor General,
     notwithstanding any such survey may contain an excess of more
     than ten per cent, above the number of acres mentioned in the
     warrants respectively: Provided, That no such patent shall be
     construed to defeat or affect the right or title of any other
     person or persons, which may have accrued by improvement or
     otherwise, to any such excess.  1811, April 2, P.L. 222, 5 Sm.l.
     264, Sec. 1.
        Section 2.  And be it further enacted by the authority
     aforesaid, That any Connecticut settlor, his, her or their legal
     representative holding land under the act, entitled, "An act for
     the purpose of adjusting the titles to lands in Bedford and
     Ulster townships, in Luzerne and Lycoming counties, passed March
     nineteenth, one thousand eight hundred and ten, who may have
     received, or shall hereafter receive patents for the same,
     agreeably to the directions of said act, shall be at liberty at
     the time of receiving his, her or their patent or patents, or at
     any time thereafter, to pay the whole of the purchase money and
     interest due, or any number of instalments due or to become due
     with the interest on the principal sum due at the time of said
     payment.