is hereby directed to be applied to such Purposes, for the use and
Benefit of
the said Town, as to the said Commissioners, or the major Part of them,
shall seem meet.
IX. And be it
further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That the Surveyor
of the County aforesaid, or any other Person whom the Commissioners aforesaid,
or the major Part of them, shall appoint to Survey and Lay out the
Lands aforesaid, as before herein directed, shall make out a fair and exact
Plat
of the Town aforesaid, and Survey thereof, whereby each Lot, Street, Lane
and Alley, may appear to be well distinguished by their respective Numbers
and Names; and the same Plat, with a full and plain Certificate thereof,
shall
deliver to the Commissioners as aforesaid, or the major Part of them, to
be
entered and reposited as hereafter directed: And that the said Surveyor,
or other
Person appointed as aforesaid, shall have and receive for Surveying and
Laying out the Town aforesaid, and making the Plant aforesaid, the Sum
of
One Thousand Pounds of Tobacco, to be paid and allowed in the County
Levy, and no more.
X. And be it
further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That the Commissioners
aforesaid, or the major Part of them, shall, and are hereby required,
to employ some sufficient Person for their Clerk, and shall administer
an
Oath to such Clerk for the due Performance of his office; which Clerk shall,
and is hereby obliged to, find and provide a good well bound Book, for
Registring
and Entering the Proceedings of the said Commissioners in the Premises,
and shall duly and faithfully Register and Enter in such Book the
Certificate
of the Survey aforesaid, the Prices of each respective Lot, the Name
of the Owner, and the Time of it's being taken up and paid for, or of the
Tender or Refusal as aforesaid, and all other the Transactions and Proceedings
of the aforesaid Commissioners whatsoever, in and about the Town aforesaid:
Which said Register, together with the Plat or Survey of the same
Town, shall be carefully examined and inspected by the aforesaid Commissioners,
or the major Part of them, and after the same is compleated, shall
be lodged with, and delivered to, the Clerk of the same County, to be by
him kept amongst the Records of the same County.
XI. And be it
further Enacted, That the said Commissioners, or the major
Part of them, shall limit and ascertain what Fees their Clerk aforesaid
shall
have and receive, for the several Services by him to be done by virtue
of this
Act, to be paid by the several Persons taking up the Lots aforesaid.
XII. And whereas
it may be advantageous to the said Town to have Fairs
kept therein, and may prove and Encouragement to the back Inhabitants,
and
others, to bring Commodities there to Sell and Vend; Be
it Enacted, That
it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners of the said Town, to appoint
Two Fairs to be held therein annually, the one Fair to begin on the
Second Thursday in April, and the other on the First Thursday in
October,
annually; which said Fairs shall be held each for the Space of Three Days;
and, that during the Continuance of such Fair or Fairs, all Persons within
the
Bounds of the said Town shall be Privileged and Free from Arrests, except
for Felony, or Breach of the Peace; and all Persons coming to such Fair
or
Fairs, or returning therefrom, shall have the like Privilege of One Day
before
the Fair, and One Day on their Return therefrom: And the Commissioners
for the said Town, are hereby impowered to make such Rules and
Orders for Holding the said Fairs, as may tend to prevent all Disorders
and Inconveniencies that may happen in the said Town, and such as may tend
to the Improvement and Regulating of the said Town in general; so as
such
Rules, except in Fair-Time, affect none but Livers in the said Town, or
such
Person or Persons as shall have a Lot or Freehold therein; any Law, Statute,
Usage, or Custom, to the contrary notwithstanding. Provided
always, That |
CHAP.
XXV.
The Surveyor
to make out
two Plats of
the Town:
His Fee.
The Commissioners
to appoint
a Clerk.
HIs Duty.
His Fees how
to be ascertained.
Two annual
Fairs to be
held. |