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

Session
Laws

And the Inhabitants of the said Worcester Parish, shall have and
enjoy all Benefits and Privileges, Powers and Authorities, in every
respect, equal with any Inhabitants of any other Parish within this
Province. And further giving to the Freeholders of Worcester
Parish aforesaid, at a certain Day to be by them appointed, after the
falling of either of the said Contingencies, which shall first happen,
full and ample Power to elect and make choice of the number of
Six select Vestry-men and Two Church-wardens, and the same to
alter and renew at such Times and in such Manner as former Laws
of this Province do direct; any thing herein contained to the con-
trary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.

Chap. XXV

. An Act for laying out the Town a-new commonly called Upper-
Marlborough Town, in Prince-George's County.

Preamble

Whereas, several of the Inhabitants of Upper-Marlborough Town,
and other Inhabitants of Prince-George's County, have by their
Petition to this General Assembly set forth, that the Bounds of the
said Town, and Lots therein, are so obscure, that the same are
scarcely known by the Owners, or others, which in Time may be
very prejudicial to them, and prevent the further Settlement of the
said Town, which lies very commodious for Trade and Commerce ;
wherefore they humbly pray, that an Act of this General Assembly
may Pass, to lay out a-new the said Town, containing One Hundred
Acres of Land, as near as may be to the original Bounds thereof,
without injury to the Improvements therein already made, or to a
piece of Meadow Ground already much improved by Mr. Daniel
Carroll, one of the Proprietors thereof.

Commis
sioner
appointed

Be it therefore Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Gov-
ernor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the
Authority of the same, That Mr. Tumor Wootton, Mr. James
Weems, Mr. Thomas Clark, Mr. Thomas Gaunt, senior, Mr. Rich-
ard Keane, Mr. William Murdoch, and Mr. Thomas Harwood, be,
and are hereby appointed, Commissioners, and are by virtue of this
Act, authorized and impowered to survey and lay out the same One
Hundred Acres of Land, formerly laid out for a Town, under an
Act of Assembly of this Province, begun and held at the Town and
Port of Annapolis, the Second Day of April, Annoque Domini,
Seventeen Hundred and Six, by the Name of Upper-Marlborough,
as agreeable as it conveniently may be to the original Survey, with-
out incommoding the present Settlements, and exclusive of the piece
of Meadow Ground lately drained by Mr. Daniel Carroll, one of the
Proprietors of said Town.
And be it further Enacted, That the said Commissioners, or the
major Part of them, be, and are hereby impowered and required, at

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any Time, by them the said Commissioners, or the major Part of