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before them, or the Major Part of them, the respective Pro-
prietors and Claimers of the Lots aforesaid, hear and examine
their Pretensions thereto, and cause the Bounds thereof to be
ascertained and staked out, according to the true Intent and
Meaning of the original Plat or Survey of the Town of An-
napolis, heretofore made by the aforesaid Mr Richard Beard
so that no Man that has built by Mistake, be Ousted of his
Possession ; and finally to ascertain the Properties of the sev-
eral Claims therein; and cause their several Determinations
to be fairly transcribed, and transmitted in the Secretary's
Office of this Province, as the settled and indisputable Bounds
and Properties of all and singular the said Lots, and Parties
claiming the same.
III. And to the End that the respective Owners of any
Parcels or Quantity of Lands lying within the Survey or Plat
of the said City, may receive just and equitable' Satisfaction
from the several Claimers or Possessors of such Lots as may
happen to fall within the respective Bounds they claim Prop-
erty in ; Be it Enacted, by the Authority, Advice and Consent
aforesaid, That such respective Owners or Claimers of any
Quantity or Parcel of Land lying within the said City, do
appear before the said Commissioners, at or before the First
Day of August next, or at any other Day or Time as the said
Commissioners, or the major Part of them, shall appoint or
direct at the said City, and upon Oath by the aforesaid Com-
missioners, or any of them, to be administered to them, declare
whether or no they know, or have heard, of any Satisfaction
or Payment for all or any Part of the said Lands heretofore
made, to themselves, or any others, by, from, or under whom,
they claim the same ; and that at the same Time the said Claim-
ers and Owners of such Quantities or Parcels of Land, make
good, and shew to the said Commissioners their respective
Rights and Claims to the aforesaid Lands, and receive such
reasonable Satisfaction therefore from the respective Pro-
prietors of Lots within such their Lands, as the aforesaid
Commissioners, or the Major Part of them, Shall direct ; and
that in Default of such Claim, and making good their several
Rights to the aforesaid Quantities or Parcels of Land as
aforesaid, they, the said Claimers and Proprietors, and their
Heirs and Assigns, shall be for ever hereafter precluded and
barred from any Claim, Right or Interest thereto; and the
aforesaid Quantities or Parcels of Land, shall be deemed to
be held by the Owner of such Lots, under the like Rents and
Services as other Lots and Lands within the City aforesaid,
now are.
IV. And whereas, for the better Encouragement of poor
Tradesmen to come and inhabit within the said City, and
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