Pennsylvania Act 1817-77 — INTEREST ON LANDS REGULATE MODE OF CHARGING - SUPPLEMENT

Act text

A SUPPLEMENT

To "An act regulating the mode of charging interest on land in certain cases, and for other purposes."

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 from and after the first day of September next, it shall be lawful for the secretary of the land office to issue warrants for any vacant and unappropriated lands within the limits of the purchase made of the Indians in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, and lying east of the Allegheny river and Conewango creek, either improved or unimproved, at the rate of twenty-six dollars and sixty-six cents for every hundred acres.

Section 2. Proof required

Before any warrant shall issue for lands within the limits aforesaid, the person in whose name or for whose use such warrant is applied for, shall, in addition to the proof already required by law, prove, by a disinterested witness, whether the said lands are improved or unimproved, and if improved, the date when such improvement was commenced, that interest may be charged accordingly; which proof shall be taken, on oath or affirmation, before two justices of the peace of the county in which the lands applied for are situated. 1817, March 10, P.L. 99, 6 sm.L. 420, Sec. 2.

Compiler's Note: Section 28 of Act 207 of 2004 provided that any and all references in any other law to a "district justice" or "justice of the peace" shall be deemed to be references to a magisterial district judge.

Section 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That so much of the act of the third of April, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, as reduces the price of lands to five pounds for every hundred acres, as also so much of the act of the twenty-second September, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four as requires a settlement, residence and raising of grain, be, and the same are hereby repealed, so far as respects lands within the limits aforesaid: Provided, That nothing herein contained shall impair the right of any person who may have settled on vacant land previously to the first day of September next.