Simpson v. Register of the Land Office

The point to be decided, on this application, is highly important as a precedent, viz: Had the entry on which the survey was made become void ? To ascertain this point, recourse must be had to all the acts of assembly which have an immediate relation to it. In *219the act of 1779, “for establishing a land office,” &e. (Sec. 3), are the following clauses: “Every surveyor shall, at the time of making entries for persons not being inhabitants of his county, appoint a time for surveying their land, and give notice thereof in writing to the person making the same.” “Every chief surveyor shall proceed…