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commonly called Broxen's Point, in the County aforesaid, is very
convenient for a Town, and commodious for Trade. And for that
it appears to this General Assembly, that the erecting a Town at the
Place aforesaid, will be advantageous as well to the Inhabitants of
the said County, as others trading or resorting thereto. It is there-
fore 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 Gov-
erneur, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the
Authority of the same, That Col. Benjamin Pearce, Col. Ephraim-
Augustine Herman, Mr. Stephen Knight, Mr. Joshua George, Mr.
Alphonse Cosden, Mr. Nicholas Ridgely, and Capt. Thomas Colvil,
or the major Part of them, are hereby appointed Commissioners; and
by Virtue of this Act authorized and impowered to agree for, and
purchase Twenty Acres of Land at the Place aforesaid, and cause
the same to be surveyed and laid out in the most convenient Manner.
And Be It Further Enacted, That the Commissioners aforesaid,
or the major Part of them, are hereby impowered to meet together,
at the Place aforesaid, some Time before the First Day of November
next. And the Commissioners aforesaid shall give Notice to the
Person or Persons interested in the said Lands, of such their Meeting,
some convenient Time before, that such Person or Persons may
(if he, she, or they think fit) attend, in, order to treat with the Com-
missioners aforesaid, or the major Part of them, concerning the
Purchase of the said Twenty Acres of Land. And in case, the
Owner or Owners of the said Land, shall neglect to appear, or wil-

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fully refuse to make Sale of the same at a reasonable Price, or thro'
Nonage, Coverture, non Sanse Memorise, or any other Disability, or
Impediment whatsoever, be, or are disabled to make such Sale as
aforesaid, that then the Commissioners aforesaid, or the major
Part of them, shall, and are (by Virtue of this Act) impowered
and required to issue their Warrant, under their Hands and
Seals, to the Sheriff of the said County, requiring him to impan-
nel and return a Jury of the most substantial Freeholders, In-
habitants within the said County, to be and appear before the
said Commissioners, at a certain Day and Place, by them to be ap-
pointed; which Jury, upon their Oath, by the said Commissioners,
or the major Part of them, to be administered, shall enquire, assess,
and return what Damages and Recompence they shall think fit, to be
awarded to the Owner or Owners of the said Twenty Acres of Land ;
and all Persons therein concerned, according to their several and
respective Interests.
And Be It Further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, by and
with the Advice and Consent aforesaid, That the Commissioners
aforesaid, or the major Part of them, on purchasing the Land afore-

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