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be Impowered to make the Choice. Ordered that a Message be

prepared as follows Viz :

By the Lower House of Assembly, October the 17^th 1720.

May it Please Y^r Hon^r
This House having Considered the Act for Ascertaining
the bounds of Land within this Province. Are Come to the
following Resolutions thereon, for the Amendment of that
Law Viz.
That the number of Commissioners on the first View be
five, each of them a free holder, to be Elected by the Majority
of the free holders in Each County on the Second Day of next
November Court and so every Year Succesively, who upon a
Representation of such their Election from the Shirrifif are to
be Comissioned by the Govern^r for the Time being. That
appeales be Granted and that three Persons in Each County

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be Elected in manner aforesaid at the Time afores^d when the
other Commissioners are Elected, who are to be Commissioned
as above and to receive all such Appeals as upon Notice Given
them by the Party Appealing at the next County Court after
the Determination of the first View, shall Come before them,
and upon such Notice Given them to Appoint a Time (not
less than three weeks afterwards to meet on the Lands in Dis-
pute, and then to Give due Notice thereof to all psons Con-
cerned, at w^ch time so to be appointed they may pceed to hear
and Determine the Dispute and Give Judgment thereon. w^ch
Judgment shall be Final. That the several Commissioners
continue but for one Year. That the Shcrriff give Publick
notice of the Elections as usual in Electing Delegates Ex
Officio. That every Commissioner accepting the Commission
and Quallifying himself as a Commissioner and shall after-
wards refuse to Give his Attendance as a Com^r on any Dispute
that shall lie properly before him, shall be fined five hundred
pounds of Tobacco to the use of the ffree schools in the Several
Countys unless reasonable Cause to be shewn to the Contrary
to be Allowed by the Commissioners. That the severall
Petitioners to this Assembly be relieved by a Clause to be
Added to the Bill, by Giving them the benefit of the Appeale
here Provided. That Each Commissioner on both Com-
missions be Allowed one hundred pounds of Tobacco for every
Day they shall Attend on the Land in Dispute. That nom
of the Commissioners who have formerly been Commissioners
on the first Survey be againe Commissioners on the Appeale
That in Case any of the Commissioners shall die during the
Continuance of their Commission, or be Interested in the Dis-

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