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1751.
37  CHARLES Lord BALTIMORE.
CHAP.
 XXV.
Commissioners
to ascertain
the Price
of the Lots.
The Town to
be called
George-Town.

Owners of
the Land to
have Choice

of two Lots.





Lots how to
be taken up,
entered and
paid for by
others.




















What Improvements
shall be made
on Lots so
taken up,






or the Lots
to be forfeited;


and subject to
be taken up
by others, and

paid for to
the Commissioners.








Such Money
how to be applied.
hereby required, to assess, set, and ascertain the Price to be paid for each of
the Lots aforesaid, according to the Value, Conveniency, and Situation thereof;
so always that the Prices of all the said Lots, added together, may amount
to the Sum by them Agreed for, or Awarded by the Jury, for the
aforesaid Sixty Acres of Land, and no more.  And the aforesaid Sixty Acres
of Land being so Surveyed, Laid out, and Divided, shall be, and is hereby
Erected into a Town, and shall be called by the Name of George-Town.

    VI.  And be it further Enacted, That the Owner or Owners of the aforesaid
Land, shall and may have his, her, or their Choice of any Two of the
Lots aforesaid, to be by him, her, or them retained, for his, her, or their
proper use; Provided such Choice shall be made and declared to the Commissioners
aforesaid, or the major Part of them, within Ten Days after the
Survey aforesaid shall be made and compleated, and not otherwise; and that
after such Choice is made, or in case no such Choice shall be made within
the Ten Days aforesaid, then after the Expiration of the same Ten Days, all
Persons whatsoever shall be at the Liberty to take up and purchase the same Lots,
paying the Owner or Owners aforesaid, or others therein Interested, the Price
or Value thereof so as aforesaid set and assessed by the Commissioners aforesaid;
and that every Person who shall pay as aforesaid the Price of the Lot by
him or her so taken up or chosen, or shall prove to the Satisfaction of the said
Commissioners, or the major Part of them, that he or she had tendered or
offered to pay the said Price to the Owner or Owners aforesaid, and that such
Owner had refused to accept or receive the same, and an Entry of such Payment
or Tender and Refusal being made according to the Directions hereafter
mentioned, such Person shall, and is hereby declared to be, by virtue of such
Payment or Tender and Refusal, and Entry thereof made as aforesaid, and
this Act, fully and absolutely invested and seized of and in an Estate of Inheritance
of Fee-simple of and in such Lot, to him or her, and his or her Heirs
and Assigns for ever, without any Deed, Conveyance, or other Transfer from
such Owner or Owners for the same; any Statute, Law, usage or Custom,
to the contrary notwithstanding.

    VII.  Provided always, That it shall not be lawful for any Person to take
up, enjoy, have, or possess more than one of the same Lots, within Twelve
Months after the same are divided and laid out as aforesaid; Provided also,
That all and every the Person and Persons aforesaid so taking up the Lots
aforesaid, or any of them, shall, and are hereby obliged and required within
Two Years after they shall take up their respective lots as aforesaid, and Entry
thereof made as aforesaid, to erect, build, and finish thereon One good
and substantial House, that shall cover Four Hundred square Feet of Ground
at the least, and that it be made in every respect Tenantable, with One good
Brick or Stone Chimney thereto; and that all and every of such Taker or
Takers-up, who shall neglect to build as aforesaid on their respective Lots
aforesaid, within the Time herein for that Purpose limited and appointed,
shall lose such; and the Estate of such Taker-up so neglecting as aforesaid,
shall from henceforth cease and determine, and such Lot or Lots so neglected
to be built upon, shall be subject to be again taken up by any other Person
whatsoever; which second Taker-up, paying to the Commissioners aforesaid,
the Price thereof so as aforesaid assessed, an Entry thereof made as aforesaid,
and building thereon as before directed within the Time before limited after
such second Taking-up, shall have the like Estate in such Lot or Lots as the
first Takers-up, who shall comply with the Requisites before mentioned are
herein before declared to have; and so toties quoties, until the same Lots shall
be built on and improved as aforesaid.

    VIII.  And be it further Enacted, That the Money aforesaid, directed to
be paid to the Commissioners aforesaid, for the Lots not built on and improved
by the first or other Takers-up within the Time herein limited, shall and



 
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