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Head of Port- Tobacco Creek, where they may be easily Water-
born, and is a Place not only in that, but several other Respects,
deem'd more beneficial for the Ease of the Inhabitants and Suitors
to the said Court; and have therefore prayed Leave, That an Act
may pass for the building the same at the Place aforesaid: All
which being sufficiently made appear to this Assembly, together
with the unanimous Voice and Consent of the Freeholders of the
same County thereto, It is prayed that it may be Enacted,
And be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprie-
tary, by and with the Advice and Consent of His Lordship's Gover-
nour, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Au-
thority of the same, That the Justices of Charles Cqunty-court, or
the major Part of them, be and are hereby authorized and impow-
ered, on or before the Second Tuesday of March, next after this
Session of Assembly, to go to such Place commonly known by the
Name of Chandler-Town, on the East Side of Port-Tobacco Creek,
in the said County, and there make Choice of Three Acres of Land,
whereon to build such Court-house and Prison, as they shall think
necessary, and to agree with the Owner for the Purchase thereof
forever. And in case the Owner or Owners of such Land, refuse
to make Sale of such Three Acres of Land, at a reasonable Price,
or be under any Disability of making Sale thereof; then the said
Justices, or the major Part of them, shall be and are (by Virtue of
this Act) authorized, impowered, and required, to issue their War-
rants to the Sheriff of the said County, requiring and commanding
him to impannel and return a Jury of the most substantial Free-
holders, (not less than Twelve,) Inhabitants within the said County,
to be and appear before the said Commissioners, at the said Place,
upon a certain Day to be by them limited; which Jury, upon their
oath, to be by the said Commissioners, or the major Part of them,
administred to the said Jurors, shall enquire into the Value of the
said Three Acres of Land, and the Damages the Owner or Owners
thereof will sustain by the building a Court-house thereon; and what
sum of Tobacco the said Jurors shall assess to the Owner or Owners
of such Land for such Land and Damages, for building a Court-
house and Prison thereon, shall be paid to the Owner or Owners of
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such Land, by the said County, and the County entituled to such
Land, for the use of the said County for ever. And the said Jus-
tices, or the major Part of them, are authorized and hereby impow-
ered to cause the said Three Acres of Land to be laid out by the
Surveyor of the said County, and a Certificate thereof to be returned
and recorded in the County-court Records, and to treat and agree
with Undertakers, or Workmen, to build and finish a Court-house
and Prison on such Three Acres of Land as aforesaid; and the
Charge of the said Works and Costs of the Land, to levy upon the
said County, by an equal Assessment on the Taxable Persons therein ;
any Law, Statute, Usage or Custom to the contrary, notwithstanding.
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