CHAP.
XXIII.
The Price of
Lots how to
be ascertained.
The Town
to be called
Charles-Town.
The Owner
to have
Choice of
two Lots.
The Lots to
be taken up
by Ballot. |
authorized by them, for the Price or Value thereof, in Current Money
of Maryland, at any Time before the Twentieth Day of May
aforesaid, but if
it shall so happen, that the said Commissioners cannot agree with the
said Proprietor
or Proprietors, Owners, or other Persons, upon reasonable Terms, or
that by reason of Absence, Coverture, Infancy, or other Disability
or Impediment,
such Agreement cannot be made, that then, and in any such Case,
the said Commissioners, or the major Part of them, are hereby authorized
and impowered to issue their Warrant, directed to the Sheriff of the
County
aforesaid, who is hereby required to execute the same, commanding him
to
summon Twenty-four of the best and most substantial Free-holders of
the same
County, in which case, no Person who is by law capable of giving a
Vote
for, or being elected as a Delegate shall be exempted, to be and appear
before
the said Commissioners, or the major Part of them, on the Land aforesaid,
on a certain Day in such Warrant to be mentioned, which Free-holders
being by them the said Commissioners, or the major Part of them, charged
and sworn, shall, upon their Oath, enquire, assess, and return, what
Damages
and Recompence, in Current Money aforesaid, they shall think fit to
be
awarded for the aforesaid Five Hundred Acres of Land, to the Proprietor
or
Proprietors, Owner or Owners thereof, or other Persons interested therein;
and whatever Sum or Sums of Money the same Jury shall so assess and
award
as aforesaid, shall be, and is hereby declared to be the Value and
Price of the
same Five Hundred Acres of Land.
V. And be it
further Enacted,
That the Commissioners aforesaid, or the
major Part of them, shall apportion, assess, and fix, the Price of all
and
every of the Lots aforesaid, according to the Value thereof, having regard
to
the Conveniency and Situation of each respective Lot, so always as the
Prices
of all the said Lots, added together, may make p the Sum so as aforesaid
to
be awarded by the Jury aforesaid, or the Sum by them agreed for as aforesaid,
and no more; and that the Prices so set and fixed, shall be the Sums to
be
paid by the Takers-up of each of the said Lots.
VI. And be it
further Enacted,
by the Authority aforesaid, That Two
Hundred
Acres of Land, so as aforesaid to be surveyed and laid out into Lots,
immediately after the same shall be surveyed and laid out, shall be, and
is
hereby made and erected into a Town, and shall be called Charles-Town;
and
that the other Three Hundred Acres aforesaid, to be laid out for a Common,
shall and is hereby made and declared to be the Common of the said Town;
and that all and every the Inhabitants of the said Town shall, at all Times,
have and enjoy the free use and Benefit thereof in Common.
VII. And be it
further Enacted,
by the Authority aforesaid, That the
Proprietor
or owner of the land aforesaid, to be erected into a Town, shall either
by him or herself, or by any other Person in his or her Behalf, have Liberty
to make Choice of any Two of the aforesaid lots, before any of the
said Lots shall be taken po by any other Person or persons; Provided such
Choice shall be made within Ten Days after the land aforesaid shall be
surveyed,
and laid out, and not otherwise.
VIII. And to
prevent any Partiality or Contest in the first taking up of
the Lots aforesaid; Be it Enacted,
by
the Authority aforesaid, That the Commissioners
aforesaid, or the major Part of them, as soon as conveniently may
be, after the Choice aforesaid shall be made by the proprietor of the same
land as aforesaid, or after the Expiration of the Ten Days aforesaid in
case
no such Choice shall be made, and after the Plats and Certificates aforesaid
shall be made, and returned as aforesaid, shall cause Advertisements to
be set
up at all public Places, as well in Cæcil County aforesaid,
as in the neighbouring
Counties in Maryland, and other adjacent Places, thereby giving
Notice,
that at a certain Day therein to be mentioned, not less than Three Weeks,
nor more than Six Weeks, from the Date of such Advertisements, the Lots |
