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Appendix. 581
VIII
PETITION FOR AN ACT TO PROMOTE THE ADVAN-
TAGES OF THE TOWN OF SALISBURY, SOMERSET
COUNTY, 1763
[THIS PETITION WHICH WAS PRESENTED IN THE LOWER
HOUSE OCTOBER 22, 1763, AND THERE REJECTED, PRAYED
THAT THE ACT OF ASSEMBLY PASSED IN 1732 FOR ERECTING
A TOWN AT THE HEAD OF WICOMICO RlVER, SOMERSET
COUNTY, AT HANDY'S OR CARR'S LANDING, ON FIFTEEN
ACRES OF LAND LAID OUT IN TWENTY LOTS, CALLED SALIS-
BURY, BE REPEALED AND A NEW ACT PASSED TO BE FRAMED
BY THE PETITIONERS FOR THE PURPOSE OF BETTER PRO-
MOTING THE ADVANTAGES OF THE TOWN. THIS MATTER
WILL BE FOUND DISCUSSED ON PAGE XXxiv.]
To The Hon.ble Lower House of Assembly
The Humble Petition of many Inhabitants of Somerset County,
Sheweth
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That on or about the Year 1732 an Act of Assembly of this
province passed Entituled An Act for the Erecting a Town at the
Head of Wiccomoco River in Somerset for laying into Lots fifteen
Acres of Land in the Fork thereof and at the Landing commonly
now called Handy's or Carr's Landing by which Twenty Lots were
laid out & a Town was erected & called Salisbury
That although the said Town is very comodiously situated for
Trade and Navigation very few Lots were taken up under the said
Law it being thought insufficient through the Omission of several
Clauses which are now deemed essentially necessary for many per-
sons inclinable to purchase Lots in the said Town
That your Petitioners humbly conceive it would be of great
Utility to all the Inhabitants in or near the said Town and to
all persons trading to and from thence to have an Act passed by
the Legislature to repeal the aforesaid Law and to have Leave given
to your Petitioners to frame a new Bill particularly adapted for
the Uses and purposes of the encreasing and promoting of the
Advantages of the said Town
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that your Honours will
give Leave to bring in a Bill for the purposes aforesaid
And your Petitioners in Duty bound will pray
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