1824 Act Amending Act #1

CHAPTER DCLXV.

An ACT to amend an act for surveying the Military claims west of the Tennessee River.

Approved, January 5, 1824.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, that the further time of one year, from and after the first day of January next, be allowed the surveyor of the said military lands to perform the duties required of him, by the first section of the said recited act.

        Section 2.  Be it further enacted, that until the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, be allowed to the claimants to return the plats and certificates of surveys upon the entries made upon military warrants before the first day of May one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, west of the Tennessee River, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

        Section 3.  Be it further enacted, that the said surveyor shall be allowed for every original survey, by him plainly bounded as the law directs, and for a plat of said survey, upon the delivery thereof, where the survey shall not exceed four hundred acres, the sum of five dollars, and for every survey which shall contain more than four hundred acres, at the rate of fifty cents for every one hundred acres contained in such survey; and for each chain carrier and marker employed by him, he shall be allowed a fee at the rate of ten cents for each one hundred poles.

REF:  "Acts of the Kentucky General Assembly", 1824.