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mentioned and limited, shall be seized of the like Estate of and in
such Lot, as the first Takers-up of the said Lots are hereby declared
to be, upon their complying with the Requisites aforesaid, and so
Mies quoties until all such Lots shall be built upon as aforesaid.
And be it further Enacted, That if all the Lots aforesaid shall not
be drawn and entered as aforesaid on the aforesaid Two Days, to be
appointed for Ballotting the same, then it shall and may be lawful
for any Persons whatsoever (except those who had already drawn
and entered Lots as aforesaid) to take up and enter the same as
before directed, and to pay the Prices thereof to the Clerk aforesaid,
which together with the Building thereon as aforesaid, shall entitle
such Takers-up to Fee-Simple Estates therein as aforesaid respec-
tively.

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Laws

And be it further Enacted, That the County Clerk aforesaid shall
attend the Commissioners aforesaid in the Execution of what is
required by this Act to be done, and shall make up and keep fair and
just Entries of all their Proceedings, and of all the Lots to be taken
up and paid for as aforesaid; and that the said Clerk for such his
Attendance, shall be allowed Fifteen Hundred Pounds of Tobacco
in the County Levy, and that the Surveyor aforesaid, for surveying
and laying out the Town and Common aforesaid, making and re-
turning Plats and Certificates thereof as aforesaid, and all other
Services by him to be done in the Premises, shall have and receive
the Sum of Two Thousand Pounds of Tobacco, to be assessed and
allowed in the County Levy as aforesaid.
And be it further Enacted, That the Clerk aforesaid shall from
time to time render just Accounts of, and pay to the Commissioners
aforesaid, all the Money which he shall receive for the Prices of any
of the Lots aforesaid, so as aforesaid directed to be paid to him,
deducting therefrom the Commission of Two Pounds Ten Shillings
per Cent, for all Sums by him so received and paid.

Duty of the
County-
clerk.

And be it further Enacted, That all and every Person and Persons
taking up, holding, or possessing any of the Lots aforesaid, shall
pay yearly for every such Lot to the Right Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Province, or his Agent or Receiver here for the
Time being, for the Use of his Lordship, Two-pence Current Money
of England, in full Consideration for the Yearly Rent of the Five
Hundred Acres of Land aforesaid.

p. 50
Two-pence
Sterling per
annum to be
paid for
each Lot.

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the
Commissioners aforesaid, or the major Part of them, in laying out
the Town aforesaid, shall in the most proper and convenient Place
thereof cause to be laid out, and ascertain one or more square and
convenient Lots, or Pieces of Ground, for building a Court-House,
Market-House, and other public Edifices on, as they, or the major
Part of them shall think proper, which Lot or Lots is and are hereby
declared, at all Times hereafter, to belong to the Public for the Uses
aforesaid, and to no other Use or Purpose whatsoever.

Lots for
public
Edifices.