All lands within this state heretofore surveyed under any grant, warrant, location, or other office right, shall be returned into the Surveyor-General's¹ office (if not already returned) in the space of nine months from the passing of this act; and upon application made by the owners of such lands to the surveyor, and their paying or tendering him his legal fees, in such case, if the surveyor refuse or neglect to make, or cause to be made, returns of the said land, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of fifty pounds, the one-half to the informer, and one-half to the use of the state, to be recovered in any Court of Quarter Sessions in this state, by indictment or information.