Acts. 491

year of our Lord God One thousand Seven hundred and thirty six to
meet together on the tracts of Land aforesaid or some other Conve-
nient Place there to Adjacent and shall then and there treat and agree
with the Owner or Owners or Persons 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
Sixty Equal Lotts allowing such Sufficient Space or Quantity thereof
for Streets Lanes and Alleyes as to them shall seem meet with Posts
or Stakes towards every Street Lane or Alley the said Lotts to be
numbred one Two Three & so on to Sixty for the better and more
sure distinguishing each Lott from the other of which Sixty Lotts
the Owner or Owners of the said Land shall have his her or their
first Choice for two Lotts 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 Lotts
shall be purchased by the Inhabitants of the County aforesaid and in
Case the said Inhabitants shall not take up the said Lotts within six
months after such Laying out as aforesaid it shall then be Lawfull
for any person or persons whatsoever to take up the said Lot or Lotts
paying the Owner or Owners of the aforesaid Thirty acres propor-
tionably for the same and in Case the said Owner or Owners of the
said Thirty Acres of Land shall willfully 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 empowered and
required to Issue their Warrants under their hand & Seals to the
Sherriff of the said County which said Sherriff is also hereby re-
quired and Empowered upon receipt of such Warrants to Empannell
and return a Jury of the most substancial freeholders Inhabitants
within the said County to be and Appear before the said Commis-
sioners at a Certain Day and time by them to be Limitted
which Jury upon their Oaths shall Inquire to whom the said

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Land belongs and Assess and return what Damages & recom-
pences 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 Severall & respective interests and what sum of Money the
said Jury shall Adjudge the said Thirty Acres of Land to be worth
shall be paid to the Owner or owners so found bv 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 Requisite in this Act mentioned And be it fur-
ther Enacted that the Surveyor of Cecill County for the time being
shall have and receive for Surveying and Laying out the Town

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