CHAP.
I.
3000 Acres
of Land to be
laid out on
Broad-Creek,
to the Use of
the Nanticoke
Indians.
The Lands
how to be valued,
and that Value
to be paid
to the Owners
by the
Public.
The Lands to
be surveyed,
&c. and the
Lines thereof
marked on
Trees, &c.
To remain to
the Use of the
Indians, so
long as they
shall occupy
the same.
Such Laying
out, and Payment,
to be a
perpetual Bar
to all Claims.
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by appointed Commissioners, to cause Three Thousand Acres of Land to
be
laid out where the said Indians are now settled, in Somerset
County,
on Broad-Creek,
in Nanticoke River, and the same to appoint to the use of the
said
Indians,
for so long as they shall occupy the same. And further, to cause
such
Land to be valued in such Manner as is herein after expressed; That
is to say,
The said Commissioners, or any Three of them, shall, some Time before
the
Twenty-Fifth Day of March next, meet together, and make out
their Warrant
to the Sheriff of Somerset County, which said Sheriff is hereby
required
upon Receipt of such Warrant, to impannel and return a Jury of the
most
substantial Free-holders of the said County, to be and appear before
the said
Commissioners, upon the said Land, at the Time in such Warrant appointed;
which Jury, upon their Oaths, to be to them administered by the said
Commissioners,
or any Three of them, shall inquire, assess, and return what Damages
and Recompence they shall think fit to be awarded to the Owners of
such Land, and all Persons interested therein, according to their several
and
respective Interests: And what Sum of Tobacco the said Jury shall
adjudge
the said Land to be worth, shall be paid to the owners, and all persons
interested
therein, by the Public of this Province.
III. And
to the End that the Bounds of the said Land may be ascertained,
and the Commissioners aforesaid, and Jury, the better enabled to judge
of the
true Value thereof, the said Commissioners are hereby impowered to
employ
the Surveyor of the County aforesaid, or some other skilfil Person,
in their
Presence, to survey, lay out, and bound the same; which said Lines,
so as aforesaid
laid out, shall be marked on Trees, or other Land-Marks, to perpetuate
the Bounds thereof: The said Commissioners to return fair Certificates
of their Proceedings to the Clerks of the Provincial Court, and Somerset
County Court, for the Time being, to be by them Recorded in the said
respective
Courts.
IV. And be it
Enacted by the Authority aforesaid,
That when such Land is
laid out and paid for by the Public as aforesaid, the Property thereof
shall, by
virtue of this Act, be vested in the Honourable Colonel Thomas Ennalls,
and
Lieut. Col. George Gale, and their Heirs, to and for the Use
of the said Indian,
so long as they shall occupy the same; and afterwards shall be disposed
of as the General Assembly of this Province shall direct.
V. And
that such Laying out, and Payment as aforesaid, and this Act, shall
for ever bar the Heir or Heirs at Law, or his or their Assigns, or
any other
Persons whatsoever, of the Reversion or Remainder, Right, Claim, or
Demand
whatsoever, of, in, or to the said Land, or any Part or Parcel thereof;
any
Law, Statute, Usage or Custom to the contrary notwithstanding.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
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