Acts Not Previously Printed. 579

Be it therefore Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietor, by and with the Advice and Consent of His Lordship's
Governour, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the
Authority of the same, That the several Lots or Parcels of Ground
already purchased, or that shall hereafter happen to be purchased
from the respective Proprietors thereof, either in the said Addition
to the City of Annapolis, or the Lands adjoining thereto, called the
Town-Pasture or Common, be carefully surveyed by some skilful
Surveyor; and when so done, the said respective Lots or Parcels of
Land be numbred in usual Manner, and returned into the Mayor's
Court Office of the City aforesaid.
And be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, by and
with the Advice and Consent aforesaid, That the several Purchasers
aforesaid, their Heirs or Assigns, shall, from the Time of their re-
spective Purchases, have, hold and enjoy an absolute Estate in Fee
Simple, in the said Lots or Parcels of Land by them already pur-
chased or that shall hereafter happen to be purchased as aforesaid.
And that they, the said Purchasers, and their Assigns, shall, by
Vertue of the respective Purchases aforesaid, and building a sub-
stantial Dwelling-House with Four Hundred Foot of Floring,
besides Garrets or Roofs, shall for every Quarter of an Acre so
improved, have and enjoy all and singular the Privileges that the
Free-holders or Inhabitants of the said City, have heretofore had
or hereafter shall have, notwithstanding the said Lots or Parcels of

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Land have not been heretofore laid out into Lots; and that the same
Lots may hereafter be deemed within and as Part of the City Lots :
Any Law, Statute, Usage or Custom to the contrary, notwithstand-
ing.
Provided, That it may be lawful for the present Owners to sell
unto any Purchasers, to hold of him or them under the like Rents
and Conditions, as the said Owners hold the same under the Lord
Proprietor, as in the Cases of Lord Mesne and Tenant, in England,
in case they make their Deeds of Bargain and Sale accordingly.
And provided also, that convenient Streets and Allies be duly
regarded, saving to His Lordship the Lord Proprietor, His Heirs
and Successors, and to all Bodies Politick and Corporate, and all
others not mentioned in this Act, their several and respective Rights.

p. 277

An Act to invest the Vestry of Great-Choptank Parish in Dorches-
ter County, with an Estate in Fee-Simple to the Lands therein
mentioned.

Whereas the Vestry of Great-Choptank Parish in Dorchester
County, for the Ease and Conveniency of sundry Inhabitants of
the said Parish, have some Years past erected and built a Chappel
upon Two Acres of Land, Parcel of Fifteen Acres laid out for Pub-
lick Uses, at the Town of Vienna in the County aforesaid. But for-

1725
Chap. IX
[Wm Parks
compilation,
1727, p. 277 ;
explained by
1730, ch. 2]