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Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, March, 1707-November, 1710
Volume 27, Page 161   View pdf image (33K)
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the direction of the Act of Assembly for that purpose made as
afd one other one hundred acres of Land in the said County
shall and is hereby Erected into a Town at the plantation of
Master William Swetenham in Coursivall Creek in Chester

Lib. L. L.
No. 64.

River in Dorchester County one hundred acres of Land to be
Erected and laid out for a Town on a point Called Phillips his
point on the north Side of Fishing Creek in Hunger River
and the Town Called Little Yarmouth in transquaking river
shall be deserted in Baltemore County the place appointed for
a Town on Gunpowder River on the Land Called Fosters
Neck shall be deserted and in lieu thereof fifty acres of Land
shall be Erected into a Town on a Tract of Land on the said
River belonging to Ann Felks Called Taylors Choice and that
the Court House of the said County shall be built there. In
Anna Arundell County the Towns alloted by the said recited
Act to be laid out at herring Creek to Containe fifty acres and
no more, and The Town and port of Annapolis with the
Town of West river (which said Town of West River shall
Containe but fifty acres of Land) not being as yet Laid out
according to the direction of the said Recited Act shall be laid
out at the places afd according to the Direction of the said
recited act by the time by this Act appointed and also that fifty
acres of Land at a place upon Petuxent River Called Pigg
Point shall be and is by this Act alloted for & Erected into a
Town, And also ffifty acres of Land more upon the North
branch of the said River at a place opposite to Queen Ann's
Towne in Prince Georges County shall be and is hereby alloted
for and Erected into a Town wch said Towns and Ports shall be
Laid out and divided into Lotts according to the discretion of
the Commissioners hereafter in this Act for that purpose
appointed and to that end.

p. 308

Be it Enacted by the Authority advice and Consent afd
That Master Samuel Young Master Charles Greenberry
Master Richard Jones Master Joseph Hill Master Seth Briggs
Master Josiah Towgood Master Samuel Chambers Mr John
Lamb Master William Nicholson Master Anthony Smith Mr
Thomas Gassoway Master John Battee Master Henry Lazenby
Master James Sanders Junior and Master Stephen Warman
or any five or more of Them shall be and are hereby ap-
pointed Comissioners for the Laying out of the said Towns
and port and shall be and are by this Act Authorized and Im-
powered to have the same power and Authority as the Com-
missioners in the said recited Act Ever had or ought to have
and for as much as many Persons have Taken up Lotts within
the Supposed bounds of the Town and Port of Annapolis
(since the makeing of the sd recited) Act Notwithstanding the
same was not Laid out by the Commissioners according to the
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