Acts. 639

M^r Thomas Odell M^r William Tanyhill and M^r Robert Wade,
for Queen Anns County M^r Henry Coursey M^r Philemon
Lloyd M^r Richard Tilghman M^r William Turloe M^r Nathaniel
Wright M^r John Salter M^r John Coppige M^r Edward Brown
M^r John Whittington and M^r Edward Chetham
And be it further Enacted by the Authority Advice and
Consent afores^d that the Commissioners herein before nomi-
nated and appointed for each respective County or the Maj^r
Part of them are hereby Empowered some time before the first
day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven
hundred and six to meet together upon the respective lands
and Places in this Act before mentioned or at some other Con-
venient place near thereabouts and shall then and there treat
& Agree with the Owners and Persons interested in the s^d
Lands for One hundred Acres of Convenient Land at the
discretion of the said Commissioners least Prejudiciall to the
Owners thereof And after purchase thereof shall Cause the
same to be survey'd and layd out and after the same so sur-
vey'd and layd out shall cause the same One hundred Acres
of Land to be marked staked out and Divided into Convenient
streets lanes and Allys with Open Spare places to be left on
which May be Erected Church Chappell and Markett house
and other publick buildings and the remaining part of the s^d
One hundred Acres of Land as near as may be into One hun-

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dred Equall Lotts marked on some Posts or Stakes towards
the Streets or Lanes with Number one two three four and so
forward to One hundred to be divided and laid out, Out of
which lotts the Owner of the said Land shall have his first
Choice for one Lott and after such Choice the remaining lotts
may be taken up by others but no psons shall Presume to
Purchase more than One lott in a Town or Port during the
first four Months after the laying Out such Port or Town and
the lotts shall be purchased by the Inhabitants of the County
where such Ports or Towns shall lye and in Case the Inhabi-
tants of the Countys shall not take up the lotts within the time
of four months after such laying out as af^d It shall then be free
for any Pson or Psons whatsoever to take up the said Lott or
lotts paying the Owner Proportionable for the same And in
case any pson or psons shall Willfully refuse to make sale of
any such Lands herein before mention'd or any pson or psons
that thro' Nonage Coverture Non Sanse Memoriae or any other
disability or Impediment whatsoever be or are disabled to
make such Sales as aforesaid that then the Commissioners
aforesaid nominated and Appointed in Each respective County
or the Maj^r Part of them shall and are Virtue of this Act Au-
thorized empowered and required to Issue out Warrants under
their hands and Scales to the Sheriffs of their severall and

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