CHAP.
XXV.
Commissioners
impowered
to remove
Nusances.
But the Town
is not hereby
enabled to
send Delegates
to the
Assembly.
Succession of
the Commissioners
provided for.
Quit Rents
payable on
each Lot.
A Saving of
Rights. |
such Rules and Orders be not inconsistent with the Laws of this Province,
nor the Statutes or Customs of Great-Britain.
XIII. And
be it further Enacted, That the Commissioners for the said
Town, or the major Part of them, from Time to Time, and at all Times,
shall have Power to remove all Nusances that they shall find in any
of the
Streets or Alleys of said Town. Provided
nevertheless, That this Act, nor
any Thing herein contained, shall extend, or be construed to extend,
to enable
or capacitate the said Commissioners or Inhabitants of the said Town,
to
elect or choose Delegates, or Burgesses, to sit in the General Assembly
of this
Province as Representatives of the said Town; But
it is hereby Enacted,
That the Commissioners or the Inhabitants of the said Town shall not
elect or
choose any Delegate or Delegates, Burgess or Burgesses, to Represent
the said
Town in any General Assembly of this Province.
XIV. And be it
further Enacted, That when and as often as any of the
Commissioners aforesaid shall die, or remove from the County aforesaid,
or
refuse or neglect to join in the Execution of this Act, then, and in
any such
Case, the major Part of the other Commissioners aforesaid, shall choose
others,
in the Place of such who shall die, refuse, remove, or neglect as aforesaid;
and such Person or Persons so chosen, shall have equal Power to Act
as the
other Commissioners herein mentioned.
XV. And be it
further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That all and
every
Person and Persons Taking up and Possessing the Lots aforesaid, or any
of them, shall be, and are hereby obliged to pay unto the Right Honourable
the Lord Proprietary, his Heirs or Successors, the yearly Rent of One Penny
Sterling Money for each respective lot by them so taken up and possessed,
to
be paid in the same Manner as his Land-Rents in this Province now are,
or
hereafter shall be paid.
XVI. Saving unto his most Sacred Majesty, his
Heirs and Successors; the
Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary, his Heirs and Successors; and to
all
Bodies Politic and Corporate; and all Persons not mentioned in this Act,
their
several and respective Rights; any Thing in this Act to the contrary notwithstanding.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
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