Ground, for building a Court-house, Market-house, and other public
Edifices
on, as they, or the major part of them shall think proper, which Lot or
Lots, is, and are hereby declared at all Times hereafter, to belong to
the
Public for the Uses aforesaid, and to no other Use or Purpose whatsoever.
XVIII. And
whereas,
the present Incumbent of the Parish wherein the
said Town and Common is to be laid out, has signified his Willingness and
Consent to exempt all Persons actually living and residing within the Bounds
of the said Town-Land, from the Payment of the Forty per poll, and as
such Privilege or Exemption may greatly encourage persons of all Professions,
Religions, Perswasions, Trades, or Occupations whatsoever, to build and
settle in the said Town, and much conduce to the better Peopling and Seating
the adjacent Lands, now uncultivated in the said Parish, to the equal Benefit
to the Incumbents thereof,
XIX. Be
it therefore Enacted,
by the Authority aforesaid , by and
with the
Advice and Consent aforesaid, That all and every Person and Persons
whatsoever,
actually residing or dwelling in the said Town, their Servants and
Slaves likewise
actually residing there, shall, during such his, her, or their Residence.
be exempted and discharged from the Forty per Poll granted to the Episcopal
Clergy of this Province, and all other Parochial Taxes, Charges, and Dues
whatsoever.
XXI. And
be it further Enacted,
That the Inhabitants of the same Town,
after one Year's Residence therein, shall, and are hereby declared and
adjudged
to be Residents of this province, and shall have and enjoy all the
Rights,
Privileges, Immunities, and Exemptions of Residents, by virtue of any of
the
Acts of ASsembly of this Province, or otherwise; by Law, Statute, or Usage
to the contrary notwithstanding.
XXII. And
be it further Enacted,
That when and as often as any of the
Commissioners aforesaid shall die, remove from the County aforesaid, or
refuse
or neglect to join in the Execution of this Act, then, and in any such
Case,
the major part of the other Commissioners aforesaid, shall choose others
in the
Place of such who shall die, refuse, remove or neglect as aforesaid, and
such
Person or Persons so chosen, shall have equal Power to act as the other
Commissioners
herein mentioned, and that the Power and Authority of the said
Commissioners shall continue, until all Things by them directed by this
Act
to be done, shall be compleated and finished; and that all Monies herein
before
directed to be paid to them by the Clerk aforesaid, shall be applied to
the
Building of Repairing of Public Buildings, Wharfs, or other Public Uses
of
the said Town, as the said Commissioners, or the major Part of them shall
think fit.
Examined and Compared with the Original Act, REVERDY
GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
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CHAP.
XXIII.
By Consent
of the present
Incumbent.
Residents in
the Town are
freed from
Payment of
all Parochial
Dues.
One Year's
Residence in
the Town
shall give all
the Rights,
&c. of a Resident
of the
Province.
Succession of
the Commissioners
provided
for.
Application
of Money
paid to them. |
