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Liber R. G.
1773
[Commis-
sioners ap-
pointed to
purchase
Land at or
adjoining
Pig-Point,
for building
a Court-
House and
Prison, &c.
p. 250
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And be it enacted that M.r William Haskins, M.r Richard Mason,
M.r Joshua Clarke, M.r John White, M.r Henry Dickenson, M.r
William Keene, and M.r Thomas Goldsborough, shall be and are
hereby appointed Commissioners for Caroline County aforesaid and
they or the Major Part of them shall be and they are hereby Author-
ized and Required to buy and purchase in Fee a Quantity of Land not
exceeding four Acres of Land at or adjoining Pig Point on the
East Side of Choptank River below Melvins Warehouse for the
Purpose of building thereon a Court House and Prison for the said
County and shall cause the said Land to be laid out by the Surveyor
of Dorchester County with good and sufficient Boundaries and a
Certificate thereof to be returned and recorded in the Records of the
said County and the said Commissioners or the Major Part of
them shall draw their Order on the Sheriff of Caroline County to
pay such Sum as shall be agreed upon for the said Land and the
sheriff is hereby directed and required to pay the said Order out
of the Money hereafter mentioned to be collected by him for that
Purpose and such Payment for the Land aforesaid shall invest the
Justices of Caroline County and their Successors with an Estate in
fee simple therein for the Use of the said County forever and if the
said Commissioners or the Major Part of them and the Owner of
the said Land should differ about the Value of the said Land in
such Case the Commissioners or the Major Part of them shall be
and they are hereby Authorized and impowered to order the Sheriff
of Dorchester County to summon twelve Freeholders upon the said
Land who shall be impanelled and sworn as a Jury to enquire the
Value of the said Lands and the said Commissioners or the Major
Part of them shall draw their Order upon the Sheriff of Caroline
County to pay the said Valuation and the said Sheriff is hereby di-
rected to pay the said Order out of the Money hereafter mentioned to
be by him collected for that Purpose and upon his Payment of the
said Order the fee Simple in the said Land shall be invested as afore-
said in the Justices of Caroline County and their Successors for the
Use of the said County forever
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[Justices to
contract for
convenient
Places for
holding
Courts, &c.
till the
Court-
House and
Prison be
built;]
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And be it enacted that the Justices of Caroline County or the
Major Part of them are hereby Authorized to contract and agree
for a Convenient Place in the said County to hold the Courts for
the said County and to contract and agree for a Convenient Place
in the said County for their Books Papers and other Records and
also for a fit Building for the Custody of Prisoners And the said
Courts shall be held and Records kept at such Places respectively
until the Court House and Prison for the said County shall be
erected and built And the Charge and expence of such Places shall
be Defrayed by the said County and Assessed with the Public and
County Levy
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