Pennsylvania Act 1791-1511 (session 3) — LAND OFFICE - PUBLIC LANDS - BOARD OF PROPERTY

Act text

LAND OFFICE - PUBLIC LANDS - BOARD OF PROPERTY
                      Act of 1791, 3 Sm.L. No. 1511                   Cl. 68
                                  AN ACT

     For instituting a Board of Property, and for other purposes
        therein mentioned.
        Section 1.  Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of
     Representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General
     Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the
     same, That the Secretary of the Land Office, the Receiver
     General, the Surveyor General, and Master of the rolls, for the
     time being, or any three of them, shall be and they are hereby
     constituted and appointed a Board of Property, with authority to
     exercise all the powers, under the same rules and regulations,
     as granted to the Board of Property instituted by an act of the
     General Assembly of this commonwealth, passed April 5, 1782,
     entitled "An act to vest certain powers in the president of this
     state, together with the other officers therein named, and for
     other purposes therein mentioned." And the Secretary of the Land
     Office is hereby empowered to appoint days of hearing and grant
     citations, at the reasonable request of any person or persons
     applying for the same, or otherwise, as the case may require.