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Land shall have his or their first Choice, for One Lot; provided he
or they make their Choice in Ten Days: 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 Inhabitants shall not take
up the said Lots within Six Months after such Laying out, as afore-
said, it shall then be lawful for any Person or Persons whatsoever,
to take up the said Lot or Lots, paying the Owner or Owners pro-
portionable for the same. And in Case the Owner or Owners of the
aforesaid Thirty Acres of Land shall wilfully refuse to make Sale
of the same, or that thro' Nonage, Coverture, or any other Disabil-
ity, 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, im-
powered, 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 War-
rants, to impannel and return a Jury of the most substantial Free-
holders, 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 Recom-
pence they shall think fit, to be awarded to the Owners of the said
Thirty Acres of Land, and to all Persons interested therein, accord-
ing 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 He.irs 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 Anne-Arundel
County, for the Time being, shall have and receive, for Surveying
and Laying out the Town aforesaid, the Sum of One Thousand
Pounds of Tobacco, and no more; to be paid and allowed him in the
County Levy; and that he return a Plat thereof to the County Clerk,
to be by him kept amongst the County Records: And in Case the
Taker-up of such Lot or Lots do not build, within Eighteen Months,
an House that shall cover Four Hundred square Feet, that then it
shall and may be lawful for any other Person or Persons whatsoever,
to enter upon the said Lot or Lots so as aforesaid not built upon.
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