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§ 102. How survey shall be made

Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated StatutesTitle 64 P.S. Public Lands

Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated Statutes
Title 64 P.S. Public Lands (Refs & Annos)
Chapter 4. Lands Within New Purchase
64 P.S. § 102
§ 102. How survey shall be made
Every survey hereafter to be returned into the Land-Office1 of this state, upon any warrant which shall be issued after the passing of this act, shall be made by actual going upon and measuring of the land, and marking the lines to be returned upon such warrant, after the warrant authorizing such survey shall come to the hands of the deputy-surveyor,2 to whom the same shall be directed; and every survey made theretofore shall be accounted clandestine, and shall be void, and of no effect whatsoever; and every deputy-surveyor, upon request to him made, shall give a receipt in writing, signed by him, to the person delivering any warrant of survey, for which the fee of six pence shall be paid by the party requesting the same, in which receipt shall be set forth the day and year when, and the order in which the same warrant shall come to the hands of such deputy-surveyor, and also the grantee's name and surname, and the number of acres to be surveyed thereon, and also the number of the same warrant.

Credits

1785, April 8, 2 Sm.L. 317, § 9.

Footnotes

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.
Acts authorizing appointment of deputies repealed and county surveyors to perform the duties of deputies.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.
64 P.S. § 102, PA ST 64 P.S. § 102
Current through the end of the 2023 Regular Session. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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