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out the same, in the most convenient Manner, into Twenty 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 Thirtieth Day of
November, which shall be in the Year of our Lord 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 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 distinguish-
ing each Lot from the other: Of which Twenty 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 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 said
Inhabitants 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 Fifteen Acres of Land, shall wil-
fully refuse to make Sale of the same, or that through Nonage, Cov-
erture, or any other Disability or Impediment whatsoever, are dis-
abled 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 War-
rants 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
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