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aforesaid, or some other convenient Place thereto adjacent, and shall
then and there treat and agree with the Owner or Owners, or Per-
sons interested in the said Thirty 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 Thirty 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 Thirty, for the better and more sure distinguish-
ing each Lot from the other: Of which Thirty Lots, the Owner or
Owners of the said Land shall have his or their first Choice for One
Lot, 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 Thirty 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 said Inhab-
tants shall not take up the said Lots within Six 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 Thirty Acres of Land, shall wil-
fully refuse to make Sale of the same, or that through Nonage,
Coverture, or any other Disability or Impediment whatsoever, 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 their 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 Time by them
to be limited: Which Jury, upon their Oaths, shall enquire to whom
the said Land belongs, and assess and return what Damages and
Recompence they shall think fit to be awarded to the Owners of the
said Thirty Acres of Land, and to all Persons interested therein,
according to their several and respective Interests; and what Sum
of Tobacco the said Jury shall adjudge the said Thirty Acres of Land
to be worth, shall be paid to the Owner or Owners so found by their
Verdict, and to all Persons they find interested therein, by such
Person or Persons as shall take up the said Lots, proportionably to
their Lot or Lots, which shall give the said Purchaser or Purchasers,
their Heirs and Assigns, an absolute Estate of Fee Simple in the
said Lot or Lots, he or they complying with the requisites in this Act
mentioned.
And be it further Enacted, That the Surveyor of Queen-Anne's
County, for the Time being, shall have and receive, for surveying and
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