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8 CHARLES Lord BALTIMORE.
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CHAP.
V.
* See 1684,
ch. 2. §. 3. |
Baltimore County,
In Patapsco River, near Humphrey's Creek.
On Bush River, on the Town Land, near the Court House.
Talbot County,
Near Tredaven Creek, at the Town Land.
In King's Creek, near the Old Town.
In Wye River, Town Land there.
At the Town Land, at the Fork in Chester River.
Somerset County,
* In Wiccocomico River, on the South Side, on the land next above
the Land of the Orphans of Charles Ballard.
On the Land on the North Side of Mudford Creek, viz.
Smith's and
Glannil's Land.
On Horsey's Land in Annimessex.
On Morgan's Land, commonly called Barrow's, towards the
Head
of Pocomoke.
On the Land between Mr. Jenkins's Plantation, and Mr. Howard's
Plantation, on the North Side Pocomoke.
Dorchester County,
At Worgan's Land, near to the Head of Fishing Creek, in Little-Choptank.
On Travers's Land, on the West Side of the North-West Branch
of Trasquoquin River.
Cæcil County,
At Capt. John's Creek, William Price's Plantation, in Elk
River.
In Sassafras River, at William Frisby's Plantation, in Worton
Creek.
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(2.) Commissioners appointed in the several Counties,
to execute the Powers given by this
Act, as well for purchasing the aforesaid Town-Lands,
&c., as for laying out and surveying the
said Ports, Towns, &c. and marking and staking out the Lots,
&c. (3.) † The Commissioners,
or major Part of them, some Time before the 25th March 1684, to
meet on the respective
Lands, &c. and agree with and purchase of the Owners, &c.
100 Acres of convenient
Land, and cause the same to be surveyed, marked and staked out, and divided
into convenient
Streets, Lanes and Alleys, with open Places to be left for erecting Church,
Chapel, Market-House,
or other public Buildings, and the remaining Part of the said 100 Acres,
to divide into
100 equal Lots, marked on Posts towards the Streets and Lanes, with N°
1, 2, 3, &c. to 100,
of which the Owner of the land, to have his first Choice for one Lot.,
No Person to purchase
more than one Lot, during four Months, after the 25th March 1684,
and the Lots to be
purchased by Inhabitants of the County only. But if not taken up by
them within the said four
Months, than to be free to any Person whatsoever, to take up the same,
paying the Owner proportionably.
(4.) If the Owners refused, or were disabled by legal Incapacity,
to sell, the
Commissioners were impowered to issue their Warrant to the Sheriff, to
summon a Jury to value
the Lands, and the Damage by them assessed, to be paid to the Owners, by
the Persons taking
up Lots, in Proportion to their Lots. (5) The Commissioners
were impowered to summon the
Surveyor-General, or his Deputy, in each County, to survey and lay out
each 100 Acres aforesaid,
and to mark and stake out the same into 100 equal Lots, with Streets, &c.
(6). After
such Survey, Laying-out and Valuation, any Person making Choice of a Lot,
and, making Entry
thereof, with the Person appointed by the Commissioners to keep the Book
of Entries and
paying or giving Security for Payment of such Sum, as should be by direction
of the Commissioner,
rated upon such Lot, and payable to the Owner of the Land; and building
on such Lot
one sufficient Twenty Foot square House, at the least, before the last
Day of August 1685, each respective
Lot to be held of the Lord Proprietary, his Heirs, &c. for ever, under
the yearly Rent
of One Penny Current money, for each respective Lot; the same, or any other
Manner of Settlement
or Building thereon, according to the Directions of this Act, shall invest
the said Taker-up
and Builder, with an Estate of Inheritance in the said Lot, to him, his
Heirs and Assigns for
ever. And also, upon Tender of Payment, and Refusal, the said Building
as aforesaid, with
Proof of such Tender and Refusal, shall be Binding to all Intents and Purposes
against the said
Parties so refusing, their Heirs, &c. (7.) The Commissioners
for each respective County named
in this Act, shall appoint a Person to keep a Book, wherein to enter down
each man's
Choice of any respective Lot, &c. (8.) The surveyor's Fee to
be 80lb Tobacco, for each Lot,
to be paid by the Taker-up. (9.) In case the Taker-up of any
Lot, should refuse or neglect to
build within the Time by this Act appointed, any Person whatsoever, might
take up the same,
paying the Tobacco first left on such Lot, to the Commissioners
aforesaid, of the County or to
the Person by them appointed to receive the same, for the use and Benefit
of the said Town.
Provided such second Taker-up begin to build such House, as in this Act
is limited, within one
Month after such his Entry, and finish the same within six Months:
Which House so built, shall
give and settle an Estate of Inheritance to him, and his Heirs for ever,
in the said Lot. (10.)
In case any Lots be neglected to be taken up, during five Years, from the
Proclaiming of this
Act, then shall the Owners of the Land be possessed of such Lots, as in
their first and former
Estate. (11.) All Ships and Vessels Trading into this Province,
after the last Day of August 1685,
shall unlade their respective Goods and Merchandizes at such Towns, Ports
and Places only, as
are in this Act before set down and appointed, on Penalty of forfeiting
all such Goods and Merchandizes
by them landed, at any other Places whatsoever; one Third to his Lordship,
one
Third to the Benefit of the next adjacent Town in the County where such
Offence shall be
committed, and one Third to the Informer. (12.) No Merchant,
Factor, Mariner, or other
Person, trading into this Province, whether Foreigner or Inhabitant, shall,
after the last Day of
August 1685, traffic, sell, or barter away, any Goods, &c. within
this Province, but at some of
the Ports, Towns, &c. in this Act appointed, under Penalty of forfeiting
all such Goods, &c.
(13.) This Act not to restrain Inhabitants from paying Workmen's
Wages, or buying at their
own Plantations, necessary Provisions for their Families, with any Goods,
&c. bought at any the
Ports, &c. aforesaid, or with Goods, &c. by them purchased, imported
and landed, at any the
Ports, &c. aforesaid. (14.) All Good, Wares, &c. of
the Growth, Production, or Manufacture
of this Province, after the last of August 1685, to be exported,
shall first be brought to
some Port, Town, &c. aforesaid, and there shipped and taken on board
for Exportation, and not |
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