Section 10

Section 10. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Deputy of the Attorney-General, or other agent who may be employed to prosecute the aforesaid claims on behalf of the Commonwealth, shall not receive for his services any compensation beyond the usual docket fee, and in case of a non-suit, discontinuance or judgment against the Commonwealth, no attorneys fee shall be allowed; and the Deputy Surveyors to whom any list or lists aforesaid shall be transmitted on the receipt thereof, shall give public notice of a time and place, when and where he will receive any information required by him, to be furnished to the Surveyor General as directed by the second section of this act, from the holder or holders of land therein described, and shall be allowed a reasonable compensation for noting the name or names of the owner or owners, the occupier or possessors of the respective tracts of land contained therein, and the township in which such persons reside, to be settled by the officers of the Accountant Department and to be paid in the usual way on a warrant drawn by the Auditor-General, to be charged by the Secretary of the Land-Office, to the owner or owners, occupier or occupiers, or possessor of such tracts of land; but such Deputy Surveyors shall not receive any compensation for any actual surveys, unless a special order for that purpose be directed to him by the board of property, nor shall they be allowed for any extra services of any kind, unless they shall have been performed in pursuance of a written contract, previously made with the officers of the board of property in which the particular services to be performed shall be specified.