Acts. 623

called by the Name of Princess Anne Town; many of which Lots
have been since taken up and well improved, and others secured tho'
not yet built on; and the Court-House, Prison, and one of the In-
spection Houses, for the said County, placed on the said public
Ground in the said Town. And whereas some Doubt hath arisen
concerning the Title of the said Lots, which are supposed to be
Escheat unto the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary: For aid-
ing whereof, it is prayed that it may be Enacted ;

Liber B. L. C.

And be it Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprie-
tary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's Gover-
nor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the Au-
thority of the same, That where any Person or Persons have taken
up or purchased, or that shall hereafter take up or purchase, any Lot
or Lots, Part or Parcel of a Lot or Lots, in the said Town, and that
shall pay or cause to be paid, for the Use of the said Lord Proprie-
tary, the Sum of twenty Shillings Sterling Money, in Silver or Gold,
for every such Lot, and so in Proportion for a less Part of a Lot, to
the Clerk of the said County for the Time being, who is hereby
directed and impowered to receive, and he is hereby required to
transmit the same to the Agent of the said Lord Proprietary for the
Time being; and to give the Party or Parties paying the said Money
a Receipt for the same, and to enroll the said Receipt amongst the
Records of the County Court; for which Services the Clerk shall

[In what
Manner the
Titles of
Lots in said
Town are
to be made
good to the
Purchasers.]

take and receive of the Owner or Owners thereof the Sum of two
Shillings and six Pence Current Money, and no more: Which Ster-
ling Money being paid as aforesaid, for the Use of the said Lord
Proprietary in Manner aforesaid, and the Receipt or Receipts en-
rolled as aforesaid, shall invest the Owner or Owners of such Lot
or Lots, or Part of a Lot, with a pure, absolute, and indefeasible
Estate of Inheritance in Fee Simple, of, in, and to such Lot or Lots,
or Part of a Lot, with the Appurtenances so taken up and purchased
as aforesaid.

p. 540

And be it likewise Enacted, That the Justices of the said County
paying for the Use of the said Lord Proprietary the Sum of twenty
Shillings Sterling Money in Manner aforesaid, for the public Ground
aforesaid; and the Clerk of the said County giving a Receipt, and
enrolling the same in like Manner, shall invest the Justices aforesaid,
for the Use of their County for ever, with a pure, absolute and inde-
feasible Estate of Inheritance in Fee Simple, of, in, and to the said
public Ground, with the Appurtenances thereunto belonging.

[Title of the
public
Ground in
said Town,
how to be
made good.l

7^th June 1751
Read and assented to
by the Lower House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
M. Macnemara Cl. lo. ho.

On behalf of the Right
Honble the Lord Prop^ry
of this Province I will
this be a Law.
Sam: Ogle.

The Great Seal in
Wax Appendant

7 June 1751
Read and assented to
by the Upper House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
J Ross Cl. Up. Ho.