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Pennsylvania Statutes Title 64 P.S. Public Lands § 149. Warrants to be issued for land surveyed under act of 1792, without re-survey

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

All surveys made, or that may hereafter be made, agreeably to the eighth section  1 of the act of April 3, 1792, and entered in the survey book of the proper deputy surveyor,  2 agreeable to said act,  3 it shall be the duty of the deputy surveyors, on application to them made, to make return of said surveys into the Surveyor General's office  4 at any time after the passing of this act, and the Surveyor General shall file the same in his office, after which the lands so surveyed and returned need not be again surveyed, but the Secretary of the Land Office  5 shall issue warrants of acceptance for the same to the person or persons applying to take their titles, agreeably to the provisions and directions of the first section of this act.  6

1 64 P.S. § 140.
2 Acts authorizing appointment of deputies repealed and county surveyors to perform the duties of deputies. See Act of 1850, April 9, P.L. 434, § 10 and 16 P.S. § 7431.
3 64 P.S. § 137.
4 Office abolished. See PA Const. Sched. 1, § 7.
5 See 71 P.S. §§ 917 to 923. The Land Office, as provided for in 71 P.S. § 333, is now an administrative entity located in the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. See 71 P.S. § 1709.902.
6 64 P.S. § 147.
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