Section 5. And whereas it was enacted by the ninth section of the law aforesaid, that all lands within this state, heretofore surveyed under any grant, warrant, location, or other office right, shall be returned into the Surveyor General's office (if not already returned) in the space of nine months after passing the said act, which time is already expired, and it is found that very few have called on the late deputy surveyors for their draughts, or to discharge the fees due on the same, and a literal observance of the said act would involve not only the late deputy surveyors, but the owners of lands, in manifest loss and inconvenience: Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for the Surveyor General of this state to receive returns of such surveys, as shall appear to him to have been faithfully and regularly made, from the said late deputy surveyors, their heirs or legal representatives, for such further period as to him shall seem just and reasonable. And that there shall no action, loss or damage accrue to any person or persons, by reason of neglect in complying with the aforesaid clause or section before the passing of this act.
Compiler's Note: The act referred to is the act of April 9,
1781, 1 Sm.L. 529, No.929.