Acts. 165

Be It Therefore Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord
Proprietary, 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 it shall and may be lawful to and for
the said Thomas Spalding, to use and occupy the Lots, by Virtue of
the said Act, laid out for a Town, until the said Lots, or any of them,
shall be taken up, according to the Direction of the said Act.
Provided the said Thomas Spalding shall not take up, or by any
Means remove the Posts, whereby the said Bounds of the said Lots
are ascertained.
And Whereas, it is represented and made appear to this present
General Assembly, That part of One Acre of Land, whereon the
Court-house of St. Mary's County now stands, was heretofore given
by Philip Lines, Esq; deceased, to the Justices of the said County,
for the Purpose aforesaid; but that thro' the Negligence of the then
Clerk, the same doth not appear upon Record, altho' Three of the
Bound Posts thereof are now standing, and the Place where the
other stood well known :
Be It Therefore Enacted, That the Land aforesaid, contained
within the said Bounds, and on Part whereof the said Court-house
stands, be and is hereby vested in the Justices of the said County
for the Time being, for Ever, to and for the Use of the said County
for Ever.

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And Be It Further Enacted, That the Surveyor of St. Mary's
County, who, in Pursuance of the Act aforesaid, surveyed the Land
so laid out for a Town, and now called Leonard Town, shall be
obliged, within Three Months after the End of this present Session
of Assembly, to make a fair Plat of the said Leonard Town; which
Plat, the Commissioners nominated in the said Act, or the major
Part of them, are hereby enjoyned to subscribe, and return the same
to the Clerk of the said County, who is hereby required to enter the
same among the Land Records of the said County; for which, he is
to be allowed in the County Levy, One Hundred Pounds of Tobacco :
And in Default of such Surveyors making and returning such Plat
within the Time aforesaid, he shall forfeit Five Hundred Pounds of
Tobacco, to be recovered in the Court of the said County; and
applied to the Use of that County, by Action of Debt, Bill, Plaint, or
Information, wherein no Essoin, Protection, or Wager of Law to
be allowed. And whereas, in the recited Act, it is not mentioned what
Estate the Takers up of the said Lots shall have in the same :
Be It Therefore Enacted, That all Persons, who already have taken
up and paid for any of the Lots so laid out in said Leonard Town,
or that shall hereafter take up and pay for any of said Lots, and in
all Things comply with the Directions of the Act herein before-
mentioned, shall have and enjoy an Estate in Fee Simple, in the same
Lots so by them taken up, paid for, and built on.

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