Pennsylvania Statutes Title 64 P.S. Public Lands § 97. Duties of county surveyor

No deputy-surveyor  1 shall execute any such warrant as aforesaid, unless the same warrant be directed to him, as is above set forth, nor shall any deputy-surveyor proceed to measure any land upon any warrant within the said late purchase, until the expiration of thirty days from and after the day of the date of the warrant, which, for preference and priority, shall be dependent on the aforesaid lottery; and during the latter twenty of the said thirty days, each deputy-surveyor of lands within the said late purchase shall keep open his office, and give his personal attendance therein, for at least six hours in every of the said twenty days, (Sundays excepted,) for the purpose of receiving the warrants to be issued, and directed as aforesaid; and every such deputy-surveyor shall, on or before the first day of May next, certify, in writing, to the said Surveyor-General,  2 the county, township and place, where such deputy-surveyor shall keep his office open for the purpose aforesaid, in order that all persons who may apply for lands as aforesaid may be duly informed thereof; and that every deputy-surveyor, who shall receive any such warrant, shall make fair and clear entries of all warrants put into his hands, in a book to be provided by him for that purpose, distinguishing therein the names of the grantees, quantities fo land, number and date of each warrant, and the day on which such deputy surveyor shall receive the same respectively, and whatever shall be done concerning every such warrant, which book shall be open at all seasonable hours to every applier, who shall be entitled to copies of any entry therein, to be certified as such, and signed by such deputy-surveyor.