494 Assembly Proceedings, April 20-May 6, 1736.

Lib. B. L. C.

Advice and Consent of his Lordships Governour and the upper and
Lower Houses of Assembly and the Authority of the same that
Captain George Wilson Master Philip Kennard Master Christo-
pher Hall Master Jervis Spencer & Master Thomas Hynson or any
three of them shall be and are hereby Appointed Commissioners
for Kent County aforesaid & are hereby authorized and Empowered
as well to Agree for the buying and purchasing sixty Acres of Land
out of the Tract aforesaid most Convenient to the said Ferry Land-
ing not Included in the Lots aforesaid to be Laid out into One hun-
dred Lots to be Erected with the Lots aforesaid thereto adjoining
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 Empowered some time before the Last Day
of December which shall be in the year of Our Lord God One thousand
seven Hundred & thirty six to meet together on the Tract of Land
aforesaid or some other Convenient place thereto Adjacent and shall
then and there treat and Agree with the Owner or owners or persons
Interested in the said Sixty 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 One Hundred 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 Lotts to be numbered as the Commissioners
aforesaid shall Direct to Distinguish one from the Other of which
one hundred Lots the Owner or Owners of the said Land shall have
his her or their first Choice for two Lots 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 Sixty 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 . Inhabitants shall not take up the said
Lots 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 Lots paying the Owner or Owners of the aforesaid
Sixty acres Proportionably for the same and in Case the Owner or
Owners of the said Sixty acres of Land shall Wilfully 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 [be] and are by Virtue of this Act Authorized Em-
powered and required to Issue their Warrants Under their hands and
Seals to the Sherriff of the said County which said Sherriff is also
hereby required and Empowered upon receipt of such Warrants to
Empannel 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 & time by them to be Limitted which
Jury upon their Oaths shall Enquire to whom the said Land belongs