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And Be It Further Enacted, That the Owners and Possessors of
any of the Lots formerly taken up in the said Town, not already
built upon, shall and are hereby required to erect and build upon such
Lot or Lots, within Eighteen Months after the Survey to be made
as aforesaid, and a Record thereof made, and entered according to
the Directions of this Act, one House that shall cover Four Hundred
square Feet of Ground, besides Sheds. And if any such Owner or
Owners of such Lots as aforesaid, neglect or refuse to build as afore-
said, then and in such Case, the Right, Title, and Property of such
Owner or Owners to such Lot or Lots, at the Expiration of the said
Eighteen Months, shall cease and determine, and the same Lot or
Lots become the Right and Property of the Proprietor of the said
Town Land, in as full and ample Manner, as if the same had never
been sold or conveyed.
Provided, the Owner or Owners of such Lot or Lots be not under
Age, beyond the Seas, or out of this Province, at the Time of such
Survey, and Record, and Entry thereof as aforesaid; in either of
which Cases, such Owner or Owners shall have the Liberty to improve
and build on the said Lot or Lots as aforesaid, at any Time within
Eighteen Months after such Owner or Owners arriving to his or
their Age of Twenty One, or returning into this Province.
And Be It Enacted, That the said Commissioners, or the major
Part of them, shall and are hereby required and impowered to nom-
inate and appoint some sufficient and skilful Person to be their Clerk,
who shall make a fair Record and Entry of all the Proceedings of the
said Commissioners, in a sufficient Book to be provided for that Pur-
pose; and to whom the Surveyor shall be obliged to deliver a fair
Plat of the said Lots so to be surveyed as aforesaid; which Clerk,
and his Successors, shall transmit to the Clerk of Kent County, the.
whole Proceedings of the said Commissioners, together with the said
Plat, to be lodged amongst the County Records; which Proceedings,
the Clerk of the County, is hereby required to take Charge of.
And Be It Further Enacted, That the said Commissioners shall
and are hereby impowered and required to ascertain what Fee or
Fees the Surveyor aforesaid shall have for his Trouble, in making
the Survey aforesaid, and making and returning the Plats aforesaid ;
as also, what Fee or Fees the said Clerk shall have for entering the
Proceedings of them the said Commissioners, and the several Services
by this Act directed to be done, and transmit the same under their
Hands, or the Hands of the major Part of them, to the Justices of
Kent County Court; which Justices are hereby required and im-
powered to tax and assess the same in the County Levy, which shall
be next laid after such Transmission. And that upon the Decease,
or Resignation of such Clerk as aforesaid appointed, it shall and may
be lawful for the said Commissioners, or the major Part of them, to
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