Acts. 325

Provided always that where any person or persons that hath
or have so taken up built and Improved and hath not paid the
price sett upon the Same that Every such person is hereby
Injoyned to pay the said Value of the said Lott to the owner
and Claimer of the Land upon demand without fraud or Covin

And whereas it is represented to this present Gen^ll Assem-
bly that Sev^ll of the Inhabitants of this province and others
that have taken up Sev^ll Lotts in Sev^ll Town Lands Laid out
and Surveyed for Towns according to the directions of Sev^ll
Laws of this province Lately made (that is to say) one Act of
Assembly made att a Gen^ll Assembly begun and held att the
port of Annapolis the second day of Ap^l in the year of our
Lord one Thousand Seven hundred and Six Entituled an Act
for Advancement of Trade and Erecting ports and Towns
within this province of Maryland one other Act made att a
Gen^ll Assembly begun and held att the port of Annapolis the
fifteenth day of Apll one thousd Seven hundred and Seven

C. P.

Entituled a Supplementary Act to the Act for Advancemt of
Trade and Erecting ports and Towns and one other Act made
att a Gen^ll Assembly of this province held att the port of An-
napolis the twenty ninth day of Novr Anno Domini one
thousand Seven hundred and Eight Entituled an Additionall
Act to the Supplementary Act for Advancem of Trade and
Erecting ports and Towns within this province and for Sale of
some publick Lands and buildings in the Town of St Maries
in St Maries County as by the Sev^ll Acts of Assembly afd re-
maining upon Record in the Secretaries office may appear
relying and Depending upon the benefitts and priviledges in
the said Laws granted did enter and build upon such Lotts
According to the directions of the said Laws —
Be itt therefore Enacted by the Authority Advice and Con-
sent afd that all and Every person and persons that dureing
the Continuance of the before mentioned Laws did take up a
Lott or Lotts and thereon build According to the Directions
prescribed by the said Laws or any of them in any Town
Land Laid out and Allotted for a Town by the former Laws
or any of them their heirs and Assignes shall have hold and
Enjoy a good sure and Indefeazable Estate of Inheritance in
ffee simple of in and to such Lott and Lotts soe taken up and
built upon as afd

p. 206

Provided that where the Owner of any Tract of Land
laid out for a Town by any of the afd Acts is unpaid for
any Lott taken up and built upon According to the Directions
of the said Laws such owners may after request made
have an Action of Debt for the Value of such Lott According
to the Value of the Commnrs or Jurors Empowered to Value

p. 207