How many acres of unappropriated land may be surveyed?
Our files include a number of early Kentucky land patents that were authorized by warrants for thousands of acres. We also have County Court Order patents authorized by multiple 200-acre warrants. On February 2, 1893, the Kentucky General Assembly passed legislation, indexed in 1893 as Chapter 136 and now codified as KRS 56.210, that states “no one person shall, under this chapter, enter, survey, or cause to be patented, more than two hundred acres of land in any one county.” KRS 56.270 requires the Kentucky Secretary of State to deliver to the owner any land warrant in his office that is partially appropriated, with an endorsement showing how much remains to be appropriated. The warrant may be resubmitted with another patent application, however the provisions of KRS 56.230 prevent the warrant from being assigned to another individual.
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