Assembly Proceedings, May 26-June 11, 1697. 593

or Attorneys by him or them Impowered to make Sale thereof
to receive a Conveyance thereof in the name of his Maty his
heires and Successors to the use of the County before men-
tioned and the same shall record in the County Courts as by
Act of Assembly is required and the sum or sums of Tob-
bacco by them so Contracted and agreed for to be leavyed by
an Equall Assessment on the respective Countys for and in
satisfaction of the purchases afores^d but in Case such Owner
or Owners or his or their Attorneys Lawfully Impowered shall
refuse to make sale thereof or be unreasonable in his or their
Demands or otherwise incapacitated to make Sale thereof by
reason either of nonage non Sane Memorie or being beyond
the Seas that then and in every such Case it shall and may be
Lawfull for the Comissioners of the said severall and respec-
tive Countys by Virtue of this Act to issue out Warrants to
the respective Sherriffs thereby Comanding and Impowering
them to Impanell a Jury of Substantiall freeholders within

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their respective Precincts att a Certeine day and time to
appear before the said Comissioners on the Lands aforesaid
which Jury upon their Oaths to them first Admistred by the
said Comissioners are to inquire into the true Value of such
and so much of the said Land as by the Comiss^rs they shall be
directed not Exceeding three Acres aforesaid and to Assess
such Damage and recompence for the same as they shall think
fitt to be awarded to the Owners or others on their behalfe
intrusted and the returne of the Jury to be by them made in
two parts one whereof is to be sent to his Excellency the
Governor and Councill of this Province for the time being the
other to be recorded in the Severall and respective County
Courts whereto they properly belong shall be a perpetuall
Barr to the Claime or pretention of Claime made or that shall
hereafter be made to the whole or any part thereof by the
Owner or Owners or his or their heires Executors or Assignes
forever and the Damage or recompence by the sev'all and
respective Jurys awarded for and in Satisfaction of such Lands
by them inquired of to the Owner or Owners thereof as
afores^d shall be by the Comissioners of the respective Countys
for the time being when thereunto required by such Owner or
Owners or others Lawfully intituled to the Damage thereof to
be leavied and Assessed in such method and maner as in this
Act is before mentioned & Expressed and for the better
Ascerteining the bounds of the said Land so purchased or
taken up for the use of the Countys aforesaid It shall and
may be Lawfull to and for the said Comissioners who are also
hereby Impowered and required to issue out Warrants to his
Matys Surveyors of the respective Countys whereto they
belong to appear att such day and place to be by there

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