634 Appendix.

Black Book
No. 4
Letter No. 86
[October,
1753]

p. 3

Shou^d have as a recompence for their Land houses orchards and
other Improvements who assessed and Valued the Said Sixty acres
of Land with al the Improvements thereon part of which was the
property of the Said George Gordon and the Residue the property
of your petitioner to two hundred and Eighty pounds Currant
money which was Less then the Value of your petitioners Im-
provements and your petitioner further Sheweth that he to save his
Improvements for the present till he could get redress against the
proceedings of the Said Commissioners from your Excellency and
honours made choice of two Lotts as allowed him by the Said act of
Assembly on one of which Stood a dwelling house Valued by the
Said Commissioners at onely twelve pounds Currant money tho the
Same at the time of the Valuation was rented by your petitioner
to a tenant for twenty five pounds p^r annum on the other Stood
two Store houses one of which was built with Stone Valued at
twenty four pounds currant money tho the Same at the time of the
Said Valuation was rented by your petitioner for ten pounds Sterling
p^r annum —

Which proceedings of the Said Commissioners is not onely onely
detrimental but Ruinous to your petitioner — that part of his Im-
provements which rendered his two tenements aforesaid Valuable
being thereby taken away and other buildings and Improvements
of your petitioner Valued to much Less then they are really worth
and contrary as your petitioner Conceiues to the Intention and mean-
ing of the Said act of Assembly aforesaid which was made on a
Soposition as your petitioner apprehends from the terms of the
Said Act that the place on which the Said Town was to be Laid
out Should Contain no Improvements and your petitioner further
Sheweth that there has been a manifest Partiality in the Commis-
sioners in Laying out the Said town they haveing Included all your
petitioners Improvements and Left the most Valuable part of the
Said George Gordons Improvements out of the town tho the Same
Lays near the Center thereof — all which your petitioner Did Sett

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forth in his humble petition to your Excellency and Honours (of
the upper and Lower house of Assembly in the year 1753) and
from the Contenance then given your petitioner he is incouraged
at this time to Represent his case, And as the Said act of Assembly
and the Execution thereof by the Commissioners aforesaid are con-
trary to reason & Justice and tends to the ruin of your petitioner he
humbly prays that Leave may be given to bring in a bill to repeal
the Said act or that such other Steps may be taken for your peti-
tioners redress in the premises as to your Excellency and Honours
Seem most proper and your petitioner Shall Ever pray &c.
Geo: Beall