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an absolute Estate in Fee Simple, in such Lot or Lots; such Person
or Persons complying with the other Requisits in this Act mentioned ;
any Law, Statute, Usage, or Custom to the contrary, notwithstanding.
And Whereas, it is represented to this present General Assembly,
That there is, by the original Survey of the said Town, a Quantity
of Land left out, between the Town Line that runs along the River-
Side and the Water, convenient to build Warehouses on :
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Be It Enacted, That the Commissioners aforesaid, or the major
Part of them, are hereby impowered and required to lay out the
Breadth of Sixty Feet, from the Extremity of the Lots next the
River along the River Side, for a Street; and to divide the Strand
lying between the said Street and the Water, into convenient Lots,
distinguishing them by certain Numbers, always extending the Town
Streets that lead to the River, through the same Strand, to the Water
Side: All which Lots hereafter to be taken up, shall be built upon and
improved, as according to the before Dimensions, within Eighteen
Months after the taking up of the same; which Lots so built upon, by
the Takers-up, or their Heirs, or Assigns, and payed for, or Tender
of Payment made, as before provided, shall be the Right, Property,
and Estate of such Person or Persons so taking up, improving, and
paying, their Heirs and Assigns, for Ever.
And Be It Further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, by and
with the Advice and Consent aforesaid, That all Persons minding
to take up Lots in the Town aforesaid, shall have free Liberty to take
up and enter the same, for the Space of Twelve Months, to be com-
puted from the Time of making the same Survey: But in Case all the
Lots should not be taken up, within Twelve Months after the Survey
made, that then the Proprietor or Proprietors shall be no way divested
of their Right to such of the said Lots as shall not be so taken up.
Provided Always, That the Proprietor of the remaining Land not
taken up, or held, shall have the Preference of taking up any Five
Lots, he shall think fit; so that .he makes his Election within Four
Days after the Survey aforesaid is to be made.
And Be It Further Enacted, That every Person, who already hath,
or hereafter shall take up, pay for, and build on any of the Lots laid
out, by Virtue of the Act of Assembly aforesaid, their Heirs and
Assigns for Ever, shall, after the Agreement now subsisting between
the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary and the People of this
Province, for the Payment of his Lordship's Quit-Rents and Aliena-
tion Fines shall determine or cease, shall be chargeable with and liable
to the Payment of One Penny Current Money for each Lot so taken
up, paid for, and built on, to the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary, and his Heirs, for Ever: And that the Clerk of Kent County,
yearly transmit to his Lordship's Agent, for the Time being, an
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