Chap. 50.—An ACT amending and re-enacting the 43d section of chapter
112 of the Code of 1860, with regard to Land Warrants.

Passed February 28, 1860,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the forty-
third section of chapter one hundred and twelve of the Code
of cighteen hundred and sixty be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:

“$43. The said register shall not issue any grant for land,
upon any survey heretofore made and not yet carried into
grant (other than inclusive survey), or made after this act
takes effect, unless there be endorsed on such survey an atti-
davit of the person applying for the grant, as well as that of
the surveyor making the survey, that th ey verily believe that
the land embraced in the survey has not been previously ap-
propriated, or that it was, at the time of the entry thereof,
liable to entry, or that he has bona fide title or claim to such
land, and desires, by a new grant, to perfect or quit his title
or claim thereto; but upon making the afiidavit, in either of
the forms afores aid, the register may issue a gr ant upon such
survey; but no orant issued by the register, “either in conse-
quence of any survey already made, or which may hereafter
be made, shall be valid or citcctual in law to pass any estate
or interest in any lands unayipropriated or belonging to the
commonwealth, which embrace the old magazine at W est-
ham, or any stone quarry now worked by the state, or any
lands which are within a mile of said magazine, or any such
quarry, or to pass any estate or interest in lands which are
a common, under chapter sixty-two of said Code; but every
grant for any such lands shall be absolutely void. The said
magazine, and every such stone quarry, and the lands of the
commonwealth adjacent to, or in their neighborhood, shall
be under the control of the governor, who may make such
regulations concerning the same as he may deem best for the
interests of the state.”

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.

Chap. 50.—An ACT amending and re-enacting the 43d section of chapter
112 of the Code of 1860, with regard to Land Warrants.

Passed February 28, 1860,

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly, That the forty-
third section of chapter one hundred and twelve of the Code
of cighteen hundred and sixty be amended and re-enacted so
as to read as follows:

“$43. The said register shall not issue any grant for land,
upon any survey heretofore made and not yet carried into
grant (other than inclusive survey), or made after this act
takes effect, unless there be endorsed on such survey an atti-
davit of the person applying for the grant, as well as that of
the surveyor making the survey, that th ey verily believe that
the land embraced in the survey has not been previously ap-
propriated, or that it was, at the time of the entry thereof,
liable to entry, or that he has bona fide title or claim to such
land, and desires, by a new grant, to perfect or quit his title
or claim thereto; but upon making the afiidavit, in either of
the forms afores aid, the register may issue a gr ant upon such
survey; but no orant issued by the register, “either in conse-
quence of any survey already made, or which may hereafter
be made, shall be valid or citcctual in law to pass any estate
or interest in any lands unayipropriated or belonging to the
commonwealth, which embrace the old magazine at W est-
ham, or any stone quarry now worked by the state, or any
lands which are within a mile of said magazine, or any such
quarry, or to pass any estate or interest in lands which are
a common, under chapter sixty-two of said Code; but every
grant for any such lands shall be absolutely void. The said
magazine, and every such stone quarry, and the lands of the
commonwealth adjacent to, or in their neighborhood, shall
be under the control of the governor, who may make such
regulations concerning the same as he may deem best for the
interests of the state.”

2. This act shall be in force from its passage.