626 Assembly Proceedings, May 1-June 4, 1744.

Session
Laws

and are hereby impowered and required to issue a Warrant under
their Hands and Seals, directed to the Sheriff of Worcester County
aforesaid, for the Time being, commanding him to summon and
impannel a Jury of Twenty-four good and lawful Men, Freehold-
ers of his Bailiwick, to be and appear at a Day or Days, Place or
Places, 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
enquire, assess, and return what Damages or Recompense they shall
think fit to be paid and given to such Owner or Owners, Person or
Persons, for the Forty Acres of Land, in each of the said Towns ;
and whatever Sum or Sums of Money the 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
each of the said Forty Acres of Land aforesaid.

They are to
lay out the
Lots in said
Towns.

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 Forty Acres of Land, so to be laid out into each of the
Towns aforesaid, 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 Eighty 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
in each of the Towns aforesaid, shall number with the Numbers
One, Two, Three, and so to Eighty, for distinguishing each Lot

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from the other, and shall cause the Streets, Lanes and Alleys in each
of the Towns aforesaid, to be named and distinguished by certain
Names, and by Posts or Stakes to be set up towards each of them.

Commis-
sioners to
value the
several Lots.

And be it further Enacted, 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, in
each of the Towns aforesaid, according to the Value, Conveniency,
and Situation thereof, so always that the Prices of all the same Lots
in each of the Towns aforesaid added together, may amount to the
Sum by them agreed for, or awarded by the Jury, for the said Forty
Acres of Land, in each of the Towns aforesaid, and no more; and
that the aforesaid Forty Acres of Land, in each of the Towns afore-
said, being so surveyed, laid out, and divided, shall be, and are
hereby erected into Towns, and that the Town to be situated on
Indian River, on John Massey's and Thomas Eydolat's Dwelling
Plantations, shall be called by the Name of Baltimore-Town; and
that the Town to be situated at the Head of Asseteague Creek, at a