CHAP.
XXIII.
Forfeited
Lots how to
be taken up.
Lots not taken
up by
Ballotting,
may be taken
up by any
Persons.
The County
Clerk to attend,
and enter
the Proceedings.
And render
Account of
Monies, &c.
deducting 2½
per Cent.
Quit-Rents
payable for
each Lot.
Squares for
Public Buildings. |
so neglected to be built on as aforesaid, shall, from and after the
Expiration
of the Three years aforesaid, be liable to be taken up buy any other Person
whatsoever,
XII. And
be it further Enacted,
by the Authority aforesaid, That
when and
as often as any of the Lots aforesaid, shall be forfeited for not being
built on
as aforesaid, either the first Taker-up thereof, or any other Person who
shall
incline to take up the same a-new, shall apply to the County Clerk
aforesaid,
and cause an Entry to be made by the said Clerk, of his or her taking up
such
Lot, in manner as before directed, and shall likewise pay to the said Clerk,
the Price of such Lot as before set and fixed, to be applied as herein
after
directed, together with the said Clerk's Fee as aforesaid for such Entry
and
Copy thereof; and that such Second Taker-up, having so entered and paid
doe such Lots so taken up a second Time, and built thereon, according to
the
Directions and within the Time before mentioned and limited, shall
be seized
of the like Estate, of and in such Lot, as the first Takers-up of the said
Lots are hereby declared to be, upon their complying with the Requisites
aforesaid,
and so, toties quoties, until all such Lots shall be built upon
as aforesaid.
XIII. And
be it further Enacted,
That if all the Lots aforesaid, shall not
be drawn and entered as aforesaid, on the aforesaid Two Days to be appointed
for Ballotting the same, then it shall and may be lawful for any Persons
whatsoever (except those who had already drawn and entered Lots as aforesaid)
to take p and enter the same as before directed, and to pay the Prices
thereof to the Clerk aforesaid; which, together with the Building thereon
as
aforesaid, shall entitle such Takers-up to Fee-simple Estates therein as
aforesaid
respectively.
XIV. And
be it further Enacted,
That the County Clerk aforesaid, shall
attend the Commissioners aforesaid, in the Execution of what is required
by
this Act to be done, and shall make up and keep fair and just Entries of
all
their Proceedings, and of all the Lots to be taken up and paid for
as aforesaid;
and that the said Clerk, for such his Attendance, shall be allowed
Fifteen
Hundred Pounds of Tobacco in the County Levy; and that the Surveyor
aforesaid, for surveying and laying out the Town and Common aforesaid,
making and returning Plats and Certificates thereof as aforesaid, and all
other
Services by him to be done in the Premises, shall have and receive
the Sum
of Two Thousand Pounds of Tobacco, to be assessed and allowed in the
County Levy as aforesaid.
XV. And
be it further Enacted,
That the Clerk aforesaid shall, from
Time to Time, render just Accounts of, and pay to the Commissioners aforesaid,
all the Money which he shall receive for the Prices of any of the Lots
aforesaid, so as aforesaid directed to be paid to him, deducting therefrom
the
Commission of Two Pounds Ten Shillings per Cent, for all Sums by him
so
received and paid.
XVI. And
be it further Enacted,
That all and every Person and Person,
Taking up, Holding, or Possessing any of the Lots aforesaid, shall pay
yearly
for every such Lot, to the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary of
this
Province, or his Agent or Receiver here for the Time being, for the Use
of
his lordship, Two-pence Current Money of England, in full Consideration
for the Yearly Rent of the Five Hundred Acres of Land aforesaid.
XVII. And
be it further Enacted,
by the Authority aforesaid, That
the
Commissioners aforesaid, or the major Part of them, in laying out the Town
aforesaid, shall in the most proper and convenient Place thereof, cause
to be
laid out and ascertain, one or more square and convenient Lots, or Pieces
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