Show patent land fee paid after two centuries lancaster pa rayment payment of patent fees ot of 15 each on two tracts ot of land secured from the commonwealth of pennsylvania in the eighteenth century was made at the county tax office here the tracts were the mathews property in earth barth township deeded by the state in 1737 and the steel land granted the private owners by 1790 1700 the fees were due when the land was ceedee to the private owners but were unpaid the state department part ment of revenue is 13 investigating all such lands and Is feeling feel ing payment of the foes fees wherever possible it is estimated that there fire are such tracts in ili Nan lancaster easter county alone |