160 Assembly Proceedings, March 26-April 15, 1707.

Lib. L. L.

No. 64.

laid out and Divided into Lotts the Severall and respective
Lands hereafter in this Act mentioned and appointed for
Towns according to the same rules and Directions in the said
Recited Act Contained on or before the first day of September
next (That is to say)
The Land at Benedict Leonard Town in Charles County by
the said recited act appointed for a Town one other one hun-
dred acres of Land shall be and is by this Act appointed and
Erected into a Town in the s^d County Lying on the uper Side
of Nanjemy Creek on Potomack River upon part of the Land
now or Late in the possession of Martin Campbell and the Land
adjoining thereto; and also one hundred acres of Land to be
Erected into a towne in Somersett County at a place Called
half round hill on the South side of Wiccomoco River; in
Prince Georges County a Town to be Erected on the South
Side of Piscattaway Creek at or near the head thereof to Con-
taine forty or fifty acres of Land at the Discretion of the said
Commissioners for Towns in the said County and that three
acres of Land whereon George Harris of Prince Georges
County Merchant hath built Dwelling houses and Store houses
shall from hence forth be adjudged accepted reputed and taken
to be part of Nottingham Town within the said County where-
unto it ajoyns and shall Injoy all benefitts previlledges and

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Advantages to The said Town belonging; In Kent County
the place for the Town and Port there by the said Act Erected
upon Chester River shall be deserted and in Liew Thereof
the said Port & Town with the Court house of the said County
shall be built at the place where The Comissioners for Towns
in the said County have purchased Land tor the same, and
That the place appointed for Shrewsberry Towne on Sassafrax
River by the said Act appointed be also deserted and Laid
out where the Commissioners for Towns in Kent County
aforesaid have purchased Land for the Same; In Cecell County
the place by the said Act appointed for a Town on Prices Neck
in Elk River where the Court house of the said County shall
be built for the building whereof the Comissioners formerly
appointed shall have full power to Act and proceed as by the
Act of Assembly for that purpose made they are Impowered
Authorized and required, and also fifty acres of Land more to
be laid out for a town on the plantation formerly belonging to
Isaac Calk near the head of Sassafrax river; In Queen Anns
County the place appointed for a Town by the said Act on the
Land of Robert Smith Esquire shall be deserted and in lieu
thereof one hundred acres of Land upon the plantation of
Major John Hawkins in Courseys Creek and the Convenient
Lands adjoyning thereto shall be Erected into a Town where
the Court house of the said County shall be built according to