Preamble. CHAP. XXIV. An Act giving further time to the Owners of Surveys to return the [Passed November 7th, 1791-Acts of 1791, ch. 4, pa. 5.] WHEREAS it hath been represented, that the time allowed by the act of the last session, entituled, "an act for giving further time to the owners of surveys, to return the plats and certifi cates thereof into the land office," was not sufficient to comply with the purposes thereof; and application hath been made to this assembly, to extend the time: Be it therefore enacted, That the Flats of surveys further time of two years, to be computed from the expiration of waters, when to the period mentioned in the said recited act, shall be allowed for be returned; on the western when on the eastern waters. surveys to be retained by the returning all plats and certificates of surveys on the western waters, and the further time of twelve months from the time of passing this act, shall be allowed for returning all plats and certificates of surveys on the eastern waters, to the register of the land office, who shall receive the same, and such lands shall not be considered as forfeited, or liable to forfeiture; any law to the contrary thereof notwithstanding. CHAP. XXV. An Act respecting the Deputy Register's Office in the District of Kentucky. [Passed December 17th, 1791.-Acts of 1791, ch. 19, pa. 11.] Certain plate of 1 BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That the deputy register of the district of Kentucky, shall retain in his office all plats and certificates of surveys which are now, or which shall come into his office before the first day of June next, there to remain until the general assembly of Kentucky shall give directions respecting them. deputy register in his office. Commencement of the act. 2. This act shall commence and be in force from the passage thereof. CHAP. XXVI. An Act reducing into one, the several Acts concerning the Fees of certain Officers, and declaring the mode of discharging the said Fees and County Levies. [Passed December 19th, 1792.-Acts of 1792, ch. 6, pa. 23.] Note. This act is published in the Rev. Code, vol. 1, ch. 115, pa. 211. The fees to the register therein mentioned have been altered by an act of the session of 1804. See ch. 64, pa. 86, of this volume, Breamble. CHAP. XXVII. An Act giving further time to the Owners of Surveys to return the 1 [Passed November 15th, 1792.-Acts of 1792, ch. 7, pa. 31.] WHEREAS it hath been represented that the time allowed by the act of the last session for the owners of surveys to return their plats and certificates into the land office, will not be sufficient to comply with the purposes thereof, and it is expedient to extend such time: Be it therefore enacted, by the General As sembly, That the further time of one year and five months, to be Surveys on the computed from the month of July next, shall be allowed to the western waters when to be reowners of surveys on the western waters, and the further time of turned. twelve months from the passing of this act, shall be allowed the When on the owners of surveys on the eastern waters, for returning all plats and eastern waters. certificates of surveys to the register of the land office, who shall receive the same. Any law to the contrary notwithstanding. 2. This act shall commence and be in force from and after the Commencement of this act. passing thereof. CHAP. XXVIII. An Act giving further time to the Owners of Entries on the Western [Passed October 12th, 1792-Acts of 1792, ch. 8, pa. 31.] WHEREAS the time limited by law for the owners of entries Preamble. during the present session of assembly, and it is expedient that a further time should be allowed such owners to comply with the requisitions of the acts of assembly, in such case made: Be it therefore enacted, by the General Assembly, That the further time Entries on the of two years, shall be allowed to the owners of entries on the west- western waters, ern waters, to survey the same, in such manner as is directed by within what Any thing to the contrary hereof notwithstanding. CHAP. XXIX. the western waters to survey the same, will expire An Act for the relief of Persons owning Surveys returned to the Register's Office, on which no Patents can issue in consequence of the erection of Kentucky into an Independent State. 1 [Passed December 17th, 1792,-Acts of 1792, ch. 23, pa. 83.] WHEREAS time to be sur veyed. THEREAS it is represented, that many persons previous Preamble. to the erection of Kentucky into an independent state, have returned into the register's office of this state, plats and certificates of surveys of land, lying in the now district of Kentucky, and which cannot now be passed into grants, by reason of the erection of the said district into an independent state: For remedy whereof, 2. Be it enacted, That the register of the land office shall, and he Register to deli is hereby required, on application of the owners of such surveys, vor certain sur to deliver the same to him or his assigns; and the treasurer is also veys to the required to refund to the owners of such surveys, the sums of mo- owners, ney or certificates paid by such owner or owners for the said grants, in order that they respectively be entitled to their locations in the state of Kentucky. CHAP. XXX. An Act giving further time to the Owners of Certificates and Plats of Survey on the Eastern Waters, to return the same to the Register of the Land Office, [Passed December 10th, 1793.—Acts of 1793, ch. 11, pa. 22.] WHEREAS it hath been represented, that the time allowed by the act of the last assembly, for the owners of surveys Preamble, on the eastern waters to return their plats and certificates into the land office, will not be sufficient to comply with the purposes there. of, and it is expedient to extend such time: Further time allowed for re turning surveys. Commence ment of this act. CONCERNING WASTE LANDS, 2. Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, That the further time of six months, to be computed from the fifteenth day of November, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, shall be allowed to the owners of surveys on the eastern waters, for returning all plats and certificates of survey made on locations under the commonwealth's land warrants, prior to the fifteenth day of November, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, to the register of the land office, who shall receive the same; any law to the contrary, notwithstanding. 3. This act shall commence and be in force from and after the passing thereof. CHAP. XXXI. Register to deli ver title papers to lands in Ken tucky to the agent of that state. Kentucky agent authorised to An Act to authorise the Register of the Land Office to deliver the original Title Papers, respecting Lands in the State of Kentucky. t [Passed November 11th, 1793.-Acts of 1793, ch. 16, pa. 25.] B1 2. And be it further enacted, That any person or persons who may be appointed by the state of Kentucky, shall have free access take copies of to the records in the land office and to the commissioners' books, and records respecting lands in that be at full liberty, at the expense of the said state, to make a fair state, and of the copy or copies of all records that relate to the title for lands within commissioners the said state, and of the said commissioners' books, which copy books; which shall be attested or copies shall be certified and subscribed by the register of the by the register. land office, who shall thereunto affix his seal of office. Provided, That the state of Kentucky shall be at no expense for the register's certifying and examining the same. 3. This act shall commence and be in force from and after the passing thereof. Further time al- 1 lowed for re on the western waters. CHAP. XXXII. An Act giving further time to the Owners of certain Surveys te return the Plats and Certificates thereof into the Land Office, and a further time to the Owners of Entries on the Western Waters to Survey the same. [Passed December 19th, 1794.-Acts of 1794, ch. 11, pa. 9.] of E it enacted by the General Assembly, That the further time one year from the thirty-first day of December in the turning surveys present year, shall be allowed the owners of surveys on the western waters, and from the fifteenth day of May last, until the thirty first day of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninetyfive, shall be allowed the owners of surveys on the eastern waters for returning all plats and certificates of surveys to the register of the land office, who shall receive the same, and such lands shall not be considered as forfeited or liable to forfeiture; any law to the contrary notwithstanding. On the eastern waters. も No. X. UNAPPROPRIATED LANDS, &c. 2. And be it further enacted, That the further time of two years, For surveying to be computed from the first day of November last, shall be al- entries on the lowed to the owners of entries on the western waters to survey the same, in such manner as is directed by law. 1 western waters. 3. Provided always, 'That nothing contained in this act, shall Rights of others be taken to invalidate any right which shall have been acquired saved. under the laws of this commonwealth, previous to the passing of this act. turned in time, 4. And be it further enacted, That all surveys founded on land Surveys on land warrants, and which shall not be returned to the register of the warrants not reland office, and the office fees paid thereon, within the periods may be caveated. aforesaid, shall thereafter be subject to caveat, and in all respects proceeded on in the manner prescribed by the act, entitled," an act for reducing into one, the several acts concerning the land of fice, ascertaining the terms and manner of granting waste and unappropriated lands, for settling the titles and bounds of lands, directing the mode of processioning, and prescribing the duty of surveyors;" but nothing in this act contained, shall be so construed as to prevent the register of the land office from receiving plats and But may be recertificates of survey, founded on land warrants, at any time pre- time has expired vious to a caveat being entered against the same for such default, where no caveat and being so returned to the register, and the fees paid thereon, such surveys shall not thereafter be liable to forfeiture on account thereof, although the same may not have been returned within the time prescribed by law. ceived after the is entered. ters, to relate 5. Be it enacted, That so much of this act as relates to lands on This act as to the eastern waters, shall be so construed as only to authorise the the eastern was register of the land office, to receive plats and certificates of only to surveys survey made on locations, under the commonwealth's land war- on land warrants. rants. 6. This act shall commence and be in force from and after the Commencement passing thereof. CHAP. XXXIII. An Act concerning the Register of the Land Office. i BE of this act. When he may E it enacted by the General Assembly, That the executive may, if they think it necessary, authorise the register of appoint two the land office to appoint two clerks, who shall be allowed an annu- clerks to be paid al salary of one hundred pounds each, to be paid in the same man- by the public. ncr as the salaries of the officers of civil government are paid. 2. And be it enacted, That it shall be the duty of the present Grants to be is register to make out grants on those plats which have been returned sued by the reto the land office in the time of the former register, and which have gister, on plats lain in the office the time required by law." 3. This act shall commence and be in force from and after the passing thereof. returned in the time of his predecessor. Commencement of this act UNAPPROPRIATED LANDS, &c. CHAP. XXXIV. No. X. An Act to repeal the third Section of an Act, entituled "an Act to ascertain the mode of obtaining Grants to certain Lands on the Western Waters." [Passed December 25th, 1794.-Acts of 1794, ch. 20, pa. 14.] Note. This act is published in the appendix to this volume, ch. 33 pa. (124) CHAP. XXXV. An Act to amend the Act for reducing into one, the several Acts concerning the Land Office, ascertaining the terms and manner of granting waste and unappropriated Lands, settling the Titles and bounds of Lands, directing the mode of processioning, and prescribing the duty of surveyors. [Passed December 28th, 1795.-Acts of 1795, ch. 9, pa. 14] Note. This act is published in the Rev. Code, vol. 1, ch. 187, pa. 344. - Owners of entries on western waters allowed further time to survey the same. Commencement of this act CHAP. XXXVI. An Act giving a further time to the Owners of Entries on the Western Waters to Survey the same. 1 [Passed December 3d, 1795.-Acts of 1795, ch. 22, pa. 22.] E it enacted by the General Assembly, That the further time of one year to be computed from the first day of November, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-six, shall be allowed to the owners of entries on the western waters, to survey the same in such manner as is directed by law. 2. This act shall commence and be in force from and after the passing thereof. CHAP. XXXVII. An Act to amend an Act, entituled," an Act to amend the Act, for reducing into one, the several Acts concerning the Land Office, ascertaining the terms and manner of granting Waste and Unappropriated Lands, for Settling the Title and Bounds of Lands, directing the mode of Processioning, and prescribing the Duty of Surveyors." [Passed November 18th, 1796.-Acts of 1796, ch. 24, pa. 20.] Note. This act is published in the Rev. Code, vol. 1, ch. 215, pa. 370. CHAP. XXXVIII. An Act giving further time to the Owners of certain Surveys, to return the Plats and Certificates thereof into the Land Office, and a further time to the Owners of Entries on the Western Waters, to Survey the same. [Passed December 13th, 1796.-Acts of 1796, ch. 47, pa. 29.] Twelve months 1 Bitwelve months, to be computed from the thirty-first day E enacted by the General Assembly, That the further time of allowed to re turn plats & cerof December next, shall be allowed the owners of surveys of lands tificates of suron the western waters, and the further time of twelve months, to vey; which shall be computed from the said thirty-first day of December, to the be void if not duly returned. owners of surveys of lands on the eastern waters, for returning all |