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§ 135. Application and warrant

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 5. Lands Lying North and West of the Ohio and Allegheny
64 P.S. § 135
§ 135. Application and warrant
Upon the application of any person who may have settled and improved, or is desirous to settle and improve, a plantation within the limits aforesaid, to the secretary of the Land Office,1 which application shall contain a particular description of the lands applied for, there shall be granted to him a warrant for any quantity of land within the said limits, not exceeding four hundred acres, requiring the surveyor general to cause the same to be surveyed for the use of the grantee, his heirs and assigns forever, and make return thereof to the Surveyor General’s Office,2 within the term of six months next following, the grantee paying the purchase money, and all the usual fees of the Land Office.

Credits

1792, April 3, 3 Sm.L. 70, § 3.

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.
Office abolished. See PA Const. Sched. 1, § 7.
64 P.S. § 135, PA ST 64 P.S. § 135
Current through Act 10 of the 2024 Regular Session. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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