Assembly Proceedings, April 1-26, 1684. 113

land Appointed as Afores^d Bee it therefore Enacted by the
Authority Aforesaid: That there bee A Towne Appointed Att
the said Coxes Creeke or the land Adjacent in the stead and
place of John Bowlings land and that the said John Bowlings
land be discharged from being A Town port or place of Trade
as Aforesaid Any thing in the said Act to the Contrary Not-
withstanding: and whereas Alsoe A Mistake hath happened
in the said Act in the Nomination of the place for the Towne
And port in Wicocomaca River in Summersett County by put-
ing in the word next laying next Aboue the land of the orphans
of Charles Ballards Which hath Raised sume Disspute: Being
thereby to streightly tyed to the place which is inconvenient
for the Inhabitants soe that nothing As yett hath been Affected
or Done Thereabouts for the Better explanation whereof and
the True Assertaining the place of Trade for the said River of
Wicocomoco: Bee it hereby declared And Enacted that the
towne porte or place for the River afores^d be att or neare A
parcell of land in the. said River Called Lotts wife on the land

Lib. W. H.

w^ch was formerly William Wrights land Any thing in the said
Act to the Contrary notwithstanding: And whereas it was in
and by The said Act Mentioned And enacted That the Com-
missioners in the said Act Named for eatch Respectiue
County within this province or the Major part of them who
Are thereby Impowered sumetime before the fiue & Twentieth
day of March Then Next ffollowing and now past to meet
together vpon the Respectiue Lands And places in the Act
before Mentioned or Att sume other Convenient place Neare
Thereabout And should then And There Treat And Agree
w^th the Owners and all persons Interested in the said Land:
And buy And purchase of the owners And persons Interested
in the s^d lands, one hundred Acres of the s^d Lands in the Dis-
cresion of the s^d Comissioners Least pjudicial To the owners:
And after purchase Thereof should Cause the same to be sur-
veyed & after the survey soe made of the said one hundred
Acres of .land should cause the same to be Marked staked out
and Devided into Convenient Streetes & lands in such
Manner as in the said Act is More pticulerly sett forth: And
whereas severall Douts and dissputes haue been Arisen Touch-
ing the words (the said Comissio^rs or the Major part of th^m)
whether A less number then Thirteen of the said Comissioners
of eatch Respectiue County Aforesaid had power to Treat with
the owners of the lands and to Alott Lay out and survey the
one hundred Acres of land for the severall Townes ports And
places afores^d Notwithstanding itt was in and by the said Act
Intended th^t the s^d Coffiissioners in eatch Respectiue County
w^thin this province or Any fiue of them should Execute the

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