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and Slips of Vacancy adjoining to many Surveys, and it is highly
reasonable the Person or Persons, to whose Land such Points or
other small Vacancies join, should have a Preference in securing
the same,

Be it therefore enacted, That whenever any vacant Land, not
exceeding the Quantity of Fifty Acres, in any one Place, shall be
hereafter discovered, the Person or Persons, to whose Land the
said Vacancy joins, shall have the Pre-emption of such Vacancy;
provided always, that if such Person or Persons, or some one of
them, to whose Land such Vacancy shall adjoin, do not survey and
take up the same within Twelve Months after Discovery and Notice
thereof given to him or them, then it shall and may be lawful for
any other Person to survey and take up the same; provided also, that
when such vacant Land, so as aforesaid discovered, shall be contigu-
ous to the Lands of any Minor or Minors, then Notice thereof shall be
given to his or her or their Guardian, who shall, and is hereby required
to take up and secure such Land, for, and in the Name of such
Minor or Minors; and if the Profits of the Estate, over and above
the Maintenance of such Minor or Minors, will not be sufficient to
reimburse such Guardian for the Expence of taking up and securing
such vacant Land, the said Minor or Minors shall be liable to his, her
or their Guardian therefor, when he, she or they shall arrive at full
Age, any Thing beforementioned in this, or any other Act of As-
sembly, to the contrary in any. wise notwithstanding.

And whereas when Lands shall be hereafter surveyed and laid
down, with Allowance for Variation, according to the Directions in
this Act, it may be found that Houses, Fences, or other Improve-
ments, will be left out of one Survey and included within the Lines
of some other Tract, or taken by an elder Tract from a younger, or
be left upon vacant Land, and it may be thought grievous to dis-
possess Persons of such Improvements made upon Lands to which
they thought they had legal Title; for Prevention whereof,

Be it enacted, by the Authority, Advice and Consent aforesaid,
That in all Cases where it shall appear that by Means of the Allow-
ance for Variation given by this Act, the Houses, or other Improve-
ments that are upon any Tract or Parcel of Land, are left out of the
Lines thereof and included within the Lines of any other Tract, or
shall be taken by an elder Tract from a younger, the Person or Per-
sons, out of the Lines of whose Land such Houses and Improve-
ments are excluded, or who shall hold the younger Survey, from
which an elder Survey shall take as aforesaid, shall have Liberty to
remove the same; and if the Improvements so excluded, left out or
taken away, shall consist of an House or Houses, in which the
Person or Persons holding the same, or his, her or their Tenant or
Tenants, doth, or do usually dwell, or any other valuable House that
cannot easily be removed, the Owner or Owners of such Dwelling-