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§ 61. Land office; duties of officers; price of lands

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 3. Lands Within Old Purchase
64 P.S. § 61
§ 61. Land office; duties of officers; price of lands
The Land Office1 shall be opened, for the lands already purchased from the Indians, on the first day of July next, at the rate of ten pounds for every hundred acres, with the usual fees of granting, surveying and patenting, excepting such tracts as shall be surveyed westward of the Allegheny mountain, which shall be three pounds ten shillings, and no more; and that the several officers of the Land Office are hereby fully empowered and directed to do and perform every act and thing incident, or in any wise appertaining, to their said offices, with respect to receiving, filing and entering locations, granting warrants on the same, receiving the consideration, directing copies of warrants, or other rights, receiving returns, and issuing patents of confirmation as heretofore, agreeable to the former customs and usages of the said offices.

Credits

1784, April 1, 2 Sm.L. 102, § 2.

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.
64 P.S. § 61, PA ST 64 P.S. § 61
Current through the end of the 2023 Regular Session. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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