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

Session
Laws

shall neglect or refuse to build such Chimney or Chimneys as afore-
said, and using Fire in the said House or Houses, then and in every
such Case, such Owner or Owners shall forfeit and pay the Sum of
Five Shillings Current Money, for every Month any Person shall
dwell or use Fire in such House or Houses, without Chimneys as
aforesaid, and so pro rato for a longer or shorter Time, to be recov-
ered before a single Magistrate as in case of Small Debts, to be
applied to the public Use of the Town, as the Commissioners afore-

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said, or the major Part of them shall direct. Provided, That the
Owner or Owners of such Lot or Lots be not under Age, beyond
the Seas, or out of this Province, at the Time of such Survey, Rec-
ord, and Entry thereof as aforesaid, in either of which Cases such
Owner or Owners shall have the Liberty to improve and build on
the said Lot or Lots, according to the Directions of this Act, at any
Time within One Year after such Owner or Owners arriving to his,
her, or their Age of Twenty-one Years, or returning into this
Province.

A Clerk to
be appointed.

And be it further Enacted, That the said Commissioners, or the
major Part of them, shall and are hereby required and impowered
to nominate and appoint some sufficient and skilful Person to be
their Clerk, who shall make a fair Record and Entry of all the Pro-
ceedings of the said Commissioners, in a sufficient Book to be pro-
vided for that Purpose, to whom the Surveyor shall be obliged to
deliver a fair Plat of the said Lots, to be surveyed as aforesaid;
which Clerk and his Successors shall transmit to the Clerk of Prince
George's County, the whole Proceedings of the said Commissioners,
together with the said Plat, to be lodged amongst the County Rec-
ords; which Proceedings the Clerk of the said County is hereby re-
quired to take Charge of.

Surveyor's
and Clerk's
Fees.

And be it further Enacted, That the said Commissioners shall and
are hereby impowered and required to ascertain what Fee or Fees
the Surveyor aforesaid shall have for his Trouble in making the
Survey aforesaid, and making and returning the Plat aforesaid; and
also what Fee or Fees the said Clerk shall have, for entering the Pro-
ceedings of them the said Commissioners, and the several Services
by this Act directed to be done, and transmit the same under their
Hands, or the Hands of the major Part of them, to the Justices of
Prince George's County-Court, which Justices are hereby required
and impowered to tax and assess the same in the County Levy, which
shall be next laid after such Transmission; and that upon Decease
or Resignation of such Clerk as aforesaid appointed, it shall and may
be lawful for the said Commissioners, or the major Part of them,
to nominate and appoint a Clerk for the said Town, and so often
as Need shall require.
And to the end that the said Town may not be hindered in it's Im-
provement, either by the Refusal of the original Proprietor or Pro-