98 Assembly Proceedings, April 26-May 28, 1737.

and may be Lawf ull to and for the Publick Treasurer of the Western
Shore of this Province And he is hereby Ordered and Directed
forthwith to pay or Cause to be paid to the said William Torvor or
his Agent or Attorney in fact the Sum of forty Seven Pounds four
shillings Currency.

Chap. X
[Supple-
ments 1736
ch. 21]

A Supplementary Act to the Act Entituled an Act for Erecting a
Town in Kent County on the South Side of Sasafras River on
a Tract of Land Called Tolchester at the Place where the Ferry
is now kept.
Whereas by the said recited Act Certain Persons were Appointed
Commissioners for buying Sixty Acres of Land out of the above
mentioned tract Called Tolchester and to Erect the Same into a
Town by the name of George Town and for Causing the same
to be Surveyed and Divided into One hundred Equal Lotts sometime
before the Last Day of December last And Whereas it Appears to
this Present Generall Assembly that the said Commissioners have
Elapsed the time given by the said Recited Act to do And Perform
the Several Requisites therein mentioned by means whereof the said

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Act is altogether Rendered ineffectual for Remedy whereof it is
Prayed that it may be Enacted And be it Enacted by the Right
Honourable the Lord Proprietary by and with the Advice, and Con-
sent of his Lordships Governour and the Upper and Lower Houses
of Assembly and the Authority of the same that the Severall
Commissioners Nominated and Appointed by the said Recited Act
or the Major part of them are by this Act Impowered to do the
Severall matters and things Every way relating thereto in as full
and Ample Manner as they might or Could have Done at any time
before the Last Day of December last Provided that they Finish
and Compleat the same by the Last Day of October which shall be
in the Year of our Lord one thousand Seven hundred and thirty
Seven Any thing in the said recited Act to the Contrary not-
withstanding

Chap. XI
[Supple-
ments 1724
ch. 16]

A Supplementary Act to the Act for Erecting a Town at Joppa in
Baltimore County.

Whereas by the said Act it is Provided that if any Taker up of a
Lot or Lots in said Town shall not build upon said Lot or Lots
According to the Directions of the said Act that then any other
Person might take up the said Lots not built upon as aforesaid which
said Second Taker up should pay the Value of such Lot so taken
up to the Commissioners or the Major part of them or such other
Person as the said Commissioners should Appoint to be laid out and
Applied for the use and Benefit of said Towne And Whereas it
Appears to this Present Assembly that there is now a Sum of money