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ernor, and the Upper and Lower . Houses of Assembly, and the
authority of the same. That Mr. John Caldwell, Mr. Ebenezer Handy,
Mr. Thomas Gillys, Mr. Isaac Handy, and Mr. John Disharoon, or
any Three of them, shall be and are hereby appointed Commissioners
for Somerset County aforesaid, and are hereby authorized and im-
powered, as well to agree for the buying and purchasing Fifteen
Acres of Land out of the Tract aforesaid, and such Part, not exceed-
ing Fifteen Acres, as lies most convenient to the Water, as for sur-
veying and laying the same out, in the most convenient Manner,
into Twenty equal Lots, to be erected into a Town.
And be it further Enacted, That Commissioners aforesaid herein
before nominated and appointed, or the major Part of them, are
hereby impowered, some Time before the Tenth Day of December,
which shall be in the Year of our Lord God, One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Thirty Two, to meet together on the Tract of Land
aforesaid, or some other convenient Place thereto, and shall then and
there treat and agree with the Owner or Owners, and the Persons
interested in the said Fifteen Acres of Land, for the same; and after
Purchase thereof, shall cause the same to be surveyed, laid out, and
divided, as near as may be, into Twenty equal Lots, allowing such
sufficient Space or Quantity thereof, for Streets, Lanes, and Alleys,
as to them shall seem meet, with Posts or Stakes towards every
Street, Lane, or Alley; the said Lots to be numbered One, Two,
Three, and so on to Twenty, for the better and more sure distin-
guishing each Lot from the other: Of which said Twenty Lots, the
Owner or Owners of the said Land shall have his or their first Choice
for Two Lots, and after such Choice, the remaining Lots may be
taken up by others; and that no Person shall presume to purchase
more than One Lot within the said Fifteen Acres, during the first
Four Months after laying out the same; and that the said Lots shall
be purchased by the Inhabitants of the County aforesaid. And in
Case the Inhabitants shall not take up the said Lots within Six
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Months after such laying out, as aforesaid, it shall then be lawful
for any Person or Persons whatsoever, to take up the said Lot or
Lots, paying the Owner or Owners proportionably for the same.
And in Case the Owner or Owners of the aforesaid Fifteen Acres
of Land, shall refuse to make Sale of the same, or that through
Nonage, Coverture, or any other Disability or Impediment what-
soever, 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, authorized, impowered, and required, to issue
Warrants under their Hands and Seals, to the Sheriff of the said
County; which said Sheriff is also hereby required and impowered,
upon Receipt of such Warrants to impannel and return a Jury of the
most substantial Freeholders, Inhabitants within the said County,
to be and appear before the said Commissioners at a certain Day and
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