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Law or Act of this Assembly, that as well the Inhabitants of
the said County in General as the particular Persons which
have built houses thereupon may be assured of their Lotts
upon which they have Built according to the first intendment —
And as in Duty bound they shall ever pray &c.
Read and Ordered to be sent to the Upper house
Thos Grunwin Cl of the Lower house of Assembly.
Annexed to the foregoing Petition was this following War-
rant Vizt—
These are to Impower You to lay out the Town Land which
I understand William Berry has bestowed in Battle Creek for
the use of this County, you are to lay it out into So many
Lotts that Convenient Streets be left of Sixty foot in Breadth,
that the Benefit thereof may be equally to every one that shall
take such Lotts as the Division you make shall admitt of,
leaving by the Water Side a Street of one hundred foot Wide;
when the Land is so laid out, Such as will Build out of hand
may have the greatest Lotts, and when you have Certified
their Desires herein, and that William Berry has Conveyed
the Land to the Lord Proprietary for the Countys, use, I shall
then Grant Patents under the Seal to those that Build, to them
and their heirs for ever hereby Empowering you to keep a
Register and Record hereof for all which this shall be Your
Warrant Given under my hand and Seal this 27th August
1668— Charles Calvert—
To Charles Boteler Depry Surveyor
Upper house 6th May 1682
Ordered that Michael Tawney William Berry and Major
Boteler Personally appear before this house; and Produce as
well the Certificate and Plotts taken for the said Berry by the
said Boteler, as also the Certificate and Pott Since taken and
made for the said Tawney for the Perusall and better Informa-
tion of this house—
Signed pr Iohn LLewellin Cl of the Assembly—
Coll: Vincent Lowe sent to the Lower house to know of
them when they Intended to send out the Members of their
house, Committees for Indian Affairs, whether before or after
the Provincial Court, and to desire the leave of that house for
the Attorneys that are Members thereof to attend the Court,
Coll: Lowe returns with Answer that the Members Committees
of the Lower house are now Coming forth—
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