IV.  And whereas, for the better Encouragement of poor Tradesmen to
come and inhabit within the said City, and carry on their respective Trades
therein, the Corporation of the said City have supplicated this General Assembly,
That Twenty more small Lots should be laid out and added to the
said City; Be it therefore Enacted, by and with the Authority, Advice and
Consent aforesaid, That the said Commissioners, or the major Part of them
by this Act nominated and appointed, shall cause Ten Acres of the Public
Pasture, lying on the North Side of the said City, and to the Eastward of
the Ferry Road that leads by the Hill whereon the Powder-House now
stands, to be surveyed and staked out into Twenty Lots, to be taken up by
any Person or Persons that shall build a Dwelling-house upon the same. according
to the Directions of the aforesaid Act for erecting Ann-Arundel;
and Oxford Towns; which Taking-up and Building upon
as aforesaid, upon paying to the Proprietors of the said Ten Acres, what
Sum the said Commissioners, or the major Part of them, shall assess and award
to be paid for each Lot, shall, by virtue of this Act, make and vest a
sure and indefeasible Estate in Fee, in and to the respective Takers-up and
Builders thereon, and to their Heirs and Assigns, in all or any the aforesaid
Twenty Lots so to be laid out as aforesaid; any Law, Statute or Usage to the
contrary notwithstanding.

    V.  Provided nevertheless, and it is the true Intent and Meaning of this
Act, that no Person already possessing a Lot, or any Part of a Lot, within
the said City, shall have Liberty to take up any of the said Twenty Lots, for
and during the Space of Two whole Years from the laying out the said 
Twenty Lots; nor shall any Person take up any the said Twenty Lots in the
Name of any other for his own Use.

    VI.  And for the continuing the Succession of Commissioners and Surveyor
until the Business referred to them be compleated; Be it Enacted, as aforesaid,
That in case of the Death or Absence of any the said Commissioners or
Surveyor, that the Survivors be, as they are hereby, impowered to choose others,
bu Majority of Voices, to serve in the Stead or Place of such as are
absent or deceased; and also that the said Commissioners be allowed each Fifteen
Shillings per Day for their Attendance; and that all Charges arising on
the execution of this Law, shall be ascertained by the said Commissioners,
and satisfied and raised by an equal Assessment by the Lots, upon the several
Proprietors thereof, to be levied in such Manner as the said Commissioners,
shall direct; and the said Commissioners, or the major Part of them, are
hereby impowered and authorized to enquire if any Thing be due; and, of
any Thing, what is due from the Public for any Part of the Lands laid out
in the City aforesaid, for the Use of the Public?  And to make their Report
thereof to the next Assembly, to the End that the Proprietors of the said
Lands may have just Satisfaction made them for the same.

    VII.  And be it likewise further Enacted, That the Clerk of the Mayor's
Court, for the Time being, be Clerk to the said Commissioners, to enter
their Proceedings in the Premises aforesaid, which said Proceedings shall be
entered in the Records of the Mayor's Court, whereto all Persons concerned
may have Recourse.

    VIII.  And be it likewise Enacted, That the Commissioners aforesaid, shall
take the Oaths appointed to be taken by the Act for ascertaining the Bounds
of Land within this Province, in the like Manner as is directed by that Act.
                             Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY GHISELIN,
                                                                                                                    THOMAS BACON.
 

The Commissioners
impowered
to
lay out 10
Acres of the
Public Pasture
into 20
Lots,
 

to be taken
up and improved
upon 
according to
the Directions 
of the
Act of 1694, 
ch. 8.
 
 
 
 
 

Proviso.
 
 
 
 
 

Commissioners,
&c. to
have a Succession
till the
Business be
compleated.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Their Proceedings
to be
recorded in
the Mayor's 
Court.
 

The Commissioners
to
be sworn.