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same, That Mr. Peter Taylor, Captain Henry Hooper, Mr. John
White, Mr. William Hemsley, Mr. Solomon Clayton, and Mr. Ed-
ward Wright, or any Three of them, shall be and are hereby appointed
Commissioners for the Counties aforesaid, and are hereby authorized
and impowered, as well to agree for the buying and purchasing
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Forty Acres of Land; that is to say, Twenty Acres in each County
aforesaid, at the said Choptank Bridge, and such Part, not exceeding
Forty Acres, as lies most convenient to the said River, as for survey-
ing and laying out the same, in the most convenient Manner, into
Forty equal Lots, to be erected into a Town.
And be it further Enacted, That the Commissioners aforesaid
herein before nominated and appointed, or the major Part of them,
are hereby impowered, some Time before the Last Day of March,
which shall be in the Year of our Lord God One Thousand Seven
Hundred and Thirty Three, to meet together at the said Bridge, or
some other convenient Place thereto, and shall then and there treat
and agree with the Owner or Owners, and Persons interested in the
said Forty Acres of Land; and after Purchase thereof, shall cause
the same to be -surveyed, laid out, and divided, as near as may be, into
Forty 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 Forty, for the better and
more sure distinguishing each Lot from the other: Of which Forty
Lots, the Owner or Owners of the said Land on each Side, shall have
his or their first Choice for One Lot, and after such Choice, the re-
maining Lots may be taken up by others; and that no Person shall
presume to purchase more than One Lot within the said Forty Acres
to be laid out, as aforesaid, during the first Four Months after laying
out the same; and that the said Lots shall be purchased by the In-
habitants of each County where the Twenty Acres of Land on each
Side of the said River shall be situated. And in Case the said Inhabi-
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 any such Lot or Lots, paying the
Owner or Owners proportionably for the same. And in Case the
Owner or Owners of the said Forty Acres of Land, shall wilfully
refuse to make Sale of the same, or 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, author-
ized, impowered, and required, to issue Warrants under their Hands
and Seals, to the Sheriff or Sheriffs of the said County; which said
Sheriff or Sheriffs are also hereby required and impowered, upon Re-
ceipt of such Warrants, to impannel and return a Jury of the most sub-
stantial Freeholders, Inhabitants within the said Counties, to be and
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