All surveys made, or that may hereafter be made, agreeably to the eighth section of the act of April 3, 1792, and entered in the survey book of the proper deputy surveyor, agreeable to said act, it shall be the duty of the deputy surveyors, on application to them made, to make return of said surveys into the surveyor general's office at any time after the passing of this act, and the surveyor general shall file the same in his office, after which the lands so surveyed and returned need not be again surveyed, but the secretary of the land office shall issue warrants of acceptance for the same to the person or persons applying to take their titles, agreeably to the provisions and directions of the first section of this act.
64 P.S. § 149