Acts. 153

This Act to continue for three Years, and to the End of the next
Session of Assembly which shall happen after the Expiration of
three Years.

Liber B. L. C.
[Continu-
ance.]

June 10^th 1748
Read & Assented to by
the Lower House of As-
sembly
Signed p Order
M. Macnemara Cl. lo. ho.

On behalf of the Right
Honourable the Lord
Proprietary of this Prov-
ince I will this be a Law.
Sam: Ogle

the Great Seal in
wax appendant

10^th June 1748
Read and Assented to
by the Upper House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
J Ross Cl Up. Ho.

An Act enabling the Commissioners of Charles-Town in Csecil
County, to build an Inspection-House in the said Town.

No. 21

Whereas the Commissioners for Charles-Town in Csecil County,
have, by their humble Petition to this General Assembly, repre-
sented and set forth, That by an Act of Assembly, passed at a Ses-
sions of Assembly held at the City of Annapolis on the Sixteenth
Day of May, Seventeen hundred forty and seven, an Act passed
entituled, An Act for amending the Staple of Tobacco, for prevent-
ing Frauds in his Majesty's Customs, and for the Limitation of
Officers Fees; And whereas it is by the said Act directed, That one
of the Ware or Inspecting Houses for the County aforesaid, should
be erected and built at Charles Town aforesaid; And whereas it is
by the said Law enacted, That in Case the Proprietors or Owners of
Land will not build the inspecting Houses where they shall be fixed,
that then the Justices of the County shall proceed to set a Value on
one Acre, or half an Acre of such Land, and any other Person, or
such Justices, paying the Owner the Value of such Land so set afore-
said, and building thereon such House, and performing every other
Requisite required by the Act aforesaid, shall have an absolute
Estate in Fee Simple to such Acre or half Acre of Land, and in
Case the said Justices are obliged to build, they are by the said Act
impowered to apply to the Commissioners or Trustees for emitting

[Preamble.]

Bills of Credit, for any Sum not exceeding One hundred Pounds
Current Money, to enable them to carry on and compleat the said
Building. And the said Commissioners further represent to this
General Assembly, that the Inspection-House at Charles Town can
only be situated on the public Ground, laid out and allotted for the
public Use and Benefit of the Inhabitants and Proprietors of the
said Town, and which, by a Law now in Force, cannot be disposed
of or conveyed: That the said inspecting House must stand con-
tiguous to a large Wharf, already built at the said public Expence,
and one half of an Acre of said Land in Fee Simple is of great
Value, and would be of infinite Prejudice to the Community of the
said Town, if any such Title of their said public Ground were
granted to any Person or Persons whatsoever, therefore the Corn-

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