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execute all, and every the Powers and Authorties given and enjoined,
by an Act of Assembly of this Province, entituled, An Act for the
Encouragement of Learning, and erecting Schools in the several
Counties, within this Province, as fully and amply to all Intents.
Constructions, and Purposes, as any other the Visitors for the
County Schools within this Province, may lawfully do.

Liber H. S.
No. I

9^th November 1753.
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 Propry
of this Province I will
this be a Law
Hor.° Sharpe

the great seal in
Wax Appendant

9 Novem.^r 1753.
Read and Assented to
by the Upper House of
Assembly
Signed p Order
J. Ross Cl Up Ho.

An Act to impower the Commissioners of Baltimore Town to make
^ an Addition thereto of Thirty Two Acres of Land, or thereabouts,
to be laid out into Lots.

Whereas the Inhabitants of Baltimore County, by their humble
Petition to this General Assembly, have set forth, that there is about
Thirty Two Acres of Land, lying on the West Part of Baltimore
Town, very commodiously situated and convenient to be laid out
into Lots, and made Part of said Town: Therefore humbly pray
that it may be enacted,

p. 35
(Preamble.]

And be it Enacted, by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary,
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 the Commissioners of the said Baltimore Town,
or the major Part of them, do, by Virtue of this Act, at any Time
they shall see convenient, before the First Day of April next, cause
the said Thirty Two Acres of Land, or thereabouts, to be surveyed
and laid out into Lots, in such Manner as to them shall seem con-
venient; and that when the same shall be so done, the said Thirty
Two Acres of Land, or thereabouts, shall be, and is hereby declared
to be, Part of Baltimore Town aforesaid, to all Intents and Pur-
poses whatsoever, as fully and amply as if included originally
therein, and have the same Immunities and Privileges as the Rest
of said Town have, or by former Laws ought to have; and any
Person or Persons that shall build or improve on the said Thirty Two
Acres of Land, or thereabouts, after the same shall be laid out into
Lots, as by former Laws, relating to the said Town, is directed,
and purchase the same from the Proprietor or Proprietors, shall
have an absolute Estate of Inheritance in any Lot or Lots so to be
built on and purchased; but the Purchaser or Purchasers of any
Part of the said Thirty Two Acres, or thereabouts, are hereby left
to agree with the Proprietor or Proprietors thereof, and not other-

[Thirty-two
Acres of
Land added
to Baltimore
Town, to be
laid out into
Lots.]