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Kilty's Land-Holder's Assistant, and Land-Office Guide
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336 LAND-HOLDER'S ASSISTANT.

be necessary to carry on the forges, and to lay out the
remainder of the stream into as many mill seats as conveniently
might be with a proper quantity of land on each side. The
provisions of those acts which concern the modes of payment
I do not think it of consequence to notice, further than that
the sales were generally to be on credit for specified terms, on
giving bond with two good sureties in each case.

    An act of November session 1781, ch. 28, made a further
specific enumeration of persons whose property was deemed
to be forfeited, and directed it to be sold, unless any of the
said persons should return within a limited time, and on
taking their trial for any crimes committed against the state, or for
any act tending to shew their election to become British
subjects, or to adhere to the king of Great Britain, should stand
acquitted of the treason or hostility alledged against them, in
which case such persons were to have their property or its
value restored. The commissioners of confiscated property
were directed to call on all persons who had entered into
agreements with the late proprietary, or his commissioners,
for the purchase of manor lands, and had not paid for the
same, to make payment to them, on receiving which they
were authorised to convey the lands to such purchasers. It
was further provided by this act that if any of the tracts of
land therein directed to be sold, should run into any adjoining
land bona fide purchased, possessed, and held, by any citizen
of the state before the year 1774, and still held and
possessed as aforesaid, such interfering parts should not be comprised
in the sales, but should, as by preemption, be assigned and
sold to the aforesaid possessors, for such price as the
commissioners might think just and reasonable.

    By an act of November session, 1781, ch. 31, the
commissioners were directed to sell certain confiscated lands of the
late proprietary, which had by an act of 1780, ch. 38, been
pledged for the payment of certificates issued to the troops
of the state of Maryland in the service of the United States,
to wit, Talbot's, or New Connaught manor in Cecil county,
My Lady's manor in Baltimore, or Baltimore and Harford
counties, and Monocacy manor in Frederick county. They
were directed to lay off these lands in convenient lots, having
regard to the possessions of the tenants thereon, and were to
give notice of the times of sale to the officers and soldiers of
the Maryland line with the southern army, whose certificates
issued as aforesaid, were, so far as they had not been assigned
away or transferred, made receiveable in payment for this
property. It was provided that where a tenant became the
purchaser for his own life, of the land occupied by him, or any
part thereof, a deduction of ten per cent should be made





 
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