Certain Commissioners
impowered
to
determine all
Disputes concerning
Lots
in the City of
Annapolis;
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

and their Determinations
to be transmitted
into
the Secretary's
Office.
 

Owners of any
Lands
within the
Survey of the
City, shall
make Claim 
of Satisfaction
against
Possessors of
Lots.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

or be for ever
barred from
the same.

    II.  And be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, by and
with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Governor, and the Upper and Lower
Houses of Assembly, and the Authority of the same, That the Honourable Colonel
William Holland, Colonel Thomas Addison, Captain Daniel Mariartee, and
Mr. Alexander Warfield, or any Three of them, be, ad are hereby appointed,
authorized and impowered Commissioners for hearing and finally determining,
all or any the Disputes that have and may arise among any the Takers-up,
Improvers or Purchasers of all, or any the Lot or Lots of Land laid
out within the said City, concerning either the Property or Bounds of any
the said Lots; and that to that End, the aforesaid Commissioners, or the major
Part of them, together with James Stoddart, Esq; who is hereby appointed
to survey the aforesaid City, and the several Lots, Streets and Public
Grounds therein, do, sometime before the First Day of August, in this present
Year of our Lord GOD Seventeen Hundred and Eighteen, meet within
the same City, and calling before them, or the major Part of them, the respective
Proprietors 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 Annapolis, 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 several 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 Property 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 Commissioners, 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 Claimers 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 Proprietors 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;