630 Assembly Proceedings, May 15-June 8, 1751.

Liber B. L. C.

same, That so much of the Act aforesaid, as relates to the obliging
the Inhabitants of St. Mary's County, to bring one Squirrel or Crow's
Head; and also so much of the said Act, as gives a Bounty for kill-
ing Squirrels or Crows within the said County, be and is hereby
repealed, abrogated, made null and void.

8^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 Aooendant

8^th June 1751
Read and Assented to
by the Upper house of
Assembly
Signed p Order
J Ross Cl. Up. Ho.

No. 25

An Act for laying out and erecting a Town on Potowmack River,
above the Mouth of Rock Creek in Frederick County.

[Preamble.]

Whereas several Inhabitants of Frederick County, by their hum-
ble Petition to this General Assembly, have set forth, that there is a
convenient Place for a Town on Potowmack River, above the Mouth
of Rock Creek, adjacent to the Inspection-House in the County
aforesaid; and prayed that sixty Acres of Land may be there laid
out, and erected into a Town.

[Commis-
sioners
appointed
to purchase
Land for
the said
Town.]

Be it therefore Enacted by the Right Honourable the Lord Pro-
prietary, by and with the Advice and Consent of his Lordship's
Governor, and the Upper and Lower Houses of Assembly, and the
Authority of the same, That Capt. Henry Wright Crabb, Master
John Needham, Master John Clagett, Master James Perry, Master
Samuel Magruder the third, Master Josias Bealle, and Master David
Lynn, shall be and are hereby appointed Commissioners for Freder-
ick County aforesaid; and are hereby authorized and impowered, as
well to buy and purchase sixty Acres, Part of the Tracts of Land
belonging to Messieurs George Gordon and George Bell, at the Place
aforesaid, where it shall appear to them, or the major Part of them,
to be most convenient, as to survey and lay out, or cause the same to
be surveyed and laid out, in the best and most convenient Manner,
into eighty Lots, to be erected into a Town.

[Commis-
sioners
or a Jury,
to value
such Land.]

And be it further Enacted by the Authority, Advice, and Consent
aforesaid, That the Commissioners aforesaid, before nominated and
appointed, or the major Part of them, are hereby impowered and
required, at some Time by them, or the major Part of them, to be
appointed, before the first Day of October next, to meet together on
the Land aforesaid, or at some other Place near and convenient
thereto; and then and there treat and agree (if the same can be done
on reasonable Terms) with the Owner or Owners, and Person or
Persons, interested in the same sixty Acres of Land, for the Pur-
chase thereof. And if it shall happen that the said Owner or Own-
ers, Person or Persons, will not agree with the said Commissioners