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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, May, 1730-August, 1732
Volume 37, Page 534   View pdf image (33K)
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534 Assembly Proceedings, July 11-Angitst 8, 1732.

Session
Laws

same, in the most convenient Manner, into Twenty equal Lots, to be
erected into a Town.
And be it further Enacted, That the Commissioners aforesaid
herein before nominated and appointed, or the major Part of them,
are hereby impowered, some Time before the Thirtieth Day of
November, which shall be in the Year of our Lord God, One Thou-
sand Seven Hundred and Thirty Two, to meet together on the
Tract of Land aforesaid, or some other convenient Place adjoining
thereto, and then and there treat and agree with the Owner or
Owners, and Persons interested in the said Ten Acres of Land, for
the same; and after Purchase thereof, shall cause the same to be
surveyed, laid out, and divided, as near as may be, into Twenty

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equal Lots, allowing such sufficient Space or Quantity thereof, for
Streets, Lanes, and Alleys, as to them shall seem meet, with Posts
or Stakes towards every Street, Lane, or Alley, the said Lots to be
numbered One, Two, Three, and so on to Twenty, for the better and
more sure distinguishing each Lot from the other; of which Twenty
Lots, the Owner or Owners of the said Land, shall have his or their
first Choice for One Lot; and after such Choice, the remaining Lots
may be taken up by others: And that no Person shall presume to pur-
chase more than One Lot within the said Ten Acres, during the first
Four Months after laying out the same; and that the said Lots shall be
purchased by the Inhabitants of the County aforesaid: And in Case
the said Inhabitants shall not take up the said Lots within Six Months
after such laying out, as aforesaid, it shall then be lawful for any
Person or Persons whatsoever, to take up the said Lot or Lots, paying
the Owner or Owners proportionably for the same. And in Case
the Owner or Owners of the aforesaid Ten Acres, shall wilfully
refuse to make Sale of the same; or that through Nonage, Coverture,
or other Disability or Impediment whatsoever, are disabled to make
such Sale, as aforesaid, that then the Commissioners aforesaid, or
the major Part of them, shall and are by Virtue of this Act, author-
ized, impowered, and required, to issue Warrants under their Hands
and Seals to the Sheriff of the said County; which said Sheriff is also
hereby required and impowered, upon Receipt of such Warrants, to
impannel and return a Jury of the most substantial Freeholders,
Inhabitants within the said County, to be and appear before the said
Commissioners, at a certain Day and Time by them to be limited :
Which Jury, upon their Oaths, shall enquire to whom the said Land
belongs, and assess and return what Damages and Recompence they
shall think fit to be awarded to the Owners of the said Ten Acres of
Land, and to all Persons interested therein, according to their several
and respective Interests. And what Sum of Tobacco the said Jury
shall adjudge the said Ten Acres of Land to be worth, shall be
paid to the Owners so found by their Verdict, and to all Persons they
find interested therein, by such Person or Persons as shall take up the



 
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