414 Assembly Proceedings, Sept. 21-Oct. 29, 1742.

Session
Laws

Land aforesaid, or at some other Place near and convenient thereto,
and then and there treat and agree (if the same can be done upon
reasonable Terms) with the Owner or Owners, and Person or Per-

Jury to be
impanelled
to value the
Land, in
case the
Owners
refuse to
sell the
same.

sons, interested in the same sixty Acres of Land, for the Purchase
thereof. And if it shall happen that the said Owner or Owners,
Person or Persons, will not agree with the said Commissioners for
such Rate or Price as they the said Commissioners, or the major
Part of them shall think reasonable, or shall refuse to make Sale of
the same; or that through Non-age, Coverture, or any other Disa-
bility or Impediment, shall be disabled to make such Sale, that then,
and in any such Case, the Commissioners aforesaid, or the major
Part of them, shall and are hereby impowered and required to issue
a Warrant under their Hands and Seals, directed to the Sheriff of
Prince George's County aforesaid, for the Time being, commanding
him to summon and impannel a Jury of Twenty-four good and law-
ful Men, Free-holders of his Bailiwick, to be and appear at a Day
and Place in such Warrant to be mentioned, which Sheriff is hereby
required and obliged to execute the same, and that Jury being by the
said Commissioners charged and sworn, shall upon their Oath en-
quire, assess, and return what Damages or Recompence they shall
think fit to be paid and given to such Owner, or Owners, Person or
Persons, for the Sixty Acres of Land aforesaid, and that whatever
Sum or Sums of Money such Jury shall so assess and award, shall,
and is hereby declared to be the Value and Price to be paid to such
Owner or Owners, Person or Persons, interested in the Sixty Acres
of Land aforesaid.

The said
Sixty Acres
to be sur-
veyed and
divided
into Lots.

And be it further Enacted by the Authority, Advice, and Consent
aforesaid, That after the Agreement and Purchase of the Commis-
sioners aforesaid, or after the Assessment and Return' of the Jury
aforesaid, as the Case shall happen, the aforesaid Commissioners, or
the major Part of them, shall, and are hereby required to cause the
same Sixty Acres of Land to be carefully surveyed, divided, and laid
out by the Surveyor of the County aforesaid, or such other Person
as they, or the major Part of them shall make choice of and appoint
for that Purpose, in case the said Surveyor shall neglect or refuse
to attend, as near as conveniently may be into Sixty equal Lots,
allowing such sufficient Space or Quantity thereof for Streets, Lanes,
and Alleys, as to them shall seem meet, and the same Lots so laid out
shall number with Numbers, I, 2, 3, and so to Sixty, for distinguish-
ing each Lot from the other, and shall cause the Streets, Lanes, and
Alleys to be named and distinguished by certain Names, and by
Posts or Stakes to be set up towards each of them.

Lots to be
valued by
the commis-
sioners.

And be it further Enacted by the Authority, Advice, and Consent
aforesaid, That the Commissioners aforesaid, or the major Part of
them, shall, and are hereby required to assess, set, and ascertain
the Price to be paid for each of the Lots aforesaid, according to the
Value, Conveniency and Situation thereof, so always that the Prices