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said, from the Owner or Owners thereof; or in Case of Neglect,
Refusal, or Disability of such Owner or Owners as aforesaid, on
making Inquisition by a Jury, as is before directed, shall cause the
Surveyor of the County aforesaid for the Time being, to lay out the
aforesaid Twenty Acres of Land into Twenty equal Lots, allowing
convenient Streets, Lanes, and Alleys to be first surveyed and staked
out; and the Lots aforesaid, shall be likewise distinguished by some
Posts or Stakes towards the Streets, Lanes, and Alleys, marked No 1,
2, 3, and so on, to Twenty; out of which Lots, the Owner of the said
Land shall have Liberty to chuse any One of said Lots; provided he
make such Choice, within Fifteen Days after such Town shall be so
laid out: And after such Choice, the remaining Lots may be taken
up by any Person or Persons inhabiting within the County aforesaid.
Provided, such Person or Person [s] shall not be allowed to take up
more than One Lot, during the first Four Months after laying out
the same. And in Case the Inhabitants aforesaid, shall not take up
the said Lots within the Time aforesaid, that then any Person or
Persons whatsoever shall and may have free Liberty to take up the
same.
And Be It Further Enacted, that the Damage and Recompence
which the Jurors aforesaid shall assess, or the Sum which the Com-
micGionere shall agree for, shall be paid to the Owner or Owners of
the said Land, by such Person or Persons as shall take up the said
Lots, proportionably to his or their Lot or Lots.
And Be It Further Enacted, That every Person who shall take
any of the Lots aforesaid, shall be obliged to build thereon, within
Eighteen Months from the Time of such taking up, a House that
shall cover Four Hundred square Feet, exclusive of Sheds. And if
a Dwelling House, no Chimney shall be made, but what shall be of
Brick or Stone. And to the End, that the Houses aforesaid may be
the more regularly placed,
Be It Enacted, That all the Houses to be erected on any the said
Lots, shall be built on the Edge of some Street, Lane, or Alley, and
front the same.
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And Be It Further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That the
Commissioners aforesaid, or the major Part of them, shall return
an Account of their Proceedings, to the Clerk of the County, within
Ten Days after the said Town shall be so laid out; who is hereby
obliged to enter the same in the Land Records of the said County,
and file and keep the original Report in his Office: And that the
Surveyor aforesaid, shall likewise return to the said Clerk, a fair
Plat and Certificate of the said Town, within the Time aforesaid,
to be entered and filed as aforesaid: And that any Person or Persons,
who shall think fit to take up any of the Lots aforesaid, shall apply
to the said Clerk, who is hereby obliged to make an Entry in the said
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