Pennsylvania Statutes Title 64 P.S. Public Lands § 101. Execution of warrant

All warrants of survey that shall be issued by the said Land-Office  1 of this state, after (and the priority of which shall depend on) the drawing of the said lottery, for lands within the said late purchase, shall be executed in the order and have preference of survey, as they shall severally be earliest delivered to the deputy-surveyor  2 of the district, to whom they be directed, who shall make survey thereupon; and for that purpose, the said Surveyor-General shall register the same warrants, and every of them, in the order they shall come to his office, in the manner directed in respect to the warrant first aforesaid; and every survey of the lands within the said late purchase, which shall be made in pursuance of this act, and of the former acts of this commonwealth for opening and regulating the Land-Office, shall be duly returned into the office of the said Surveyor-General, as soon as conveniently may be after such survey shall be made, upon the payment or tender of the fees to which such deputy-surveyor shall be legally entitled for his services therein; and if any such survey shall have been made on or before December 31, in any year, and shall not be returned into the office of the said Surveyor-General on or before the last day of March, in the year next following, the same survey shall be void, as to future surveys which shall be sooner returned, and filed in the office of the Surveyor-General; and if such avoidance shall happen by the neglect or default of the deputy surveyor who surveyed the same, such deputy surveyor shall be answerable to the party thereby damaged, for all the damages he or she shall sustain by such neglect or default as aforesaid, and the party shall be entitled to a new warrant, to survey other land elsewhere, to satisfy his original application.