CHAP.
XXII.
Two annual
Fairs to be
held, viz. on
the 23d April,
and 18th Oct.
to continue
three Days.
Exemption
from Civil
Arrests during
Fair
Time.
Commissioners
to employ
a Clerk,
his Salary.
A further Allowance
made
to the Surveyor.
Where Two
Persons have
joined for one
Lot, how
Entry thereof
shall be
made.
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XXIII. And whereas,
the
present Inhabitants of Charles-Town aforesaid,
have already of their own accord published a Fair, which was held at
the
said Town on the Tenth Day of this present Instant May, whereat
great
Numbers of People did meet; and whereas the adjacent Country produceth
many useful Commodities, which, brought to such Fair or Fairs to be
Sold,
might be of Benefit and Advantage to the Trade and People of this Province,
of the Time and Manner of keeping such Fair or Fairs were under due
Regulations;
Be it therefore Enacted,
by
the Authority aforesaid,
That it shall
and may be lawful for the said Commissioners to appoint Two Fairs to
be
held at the said Town, to wit, to begin on the Twenty-third
Day f April,
and the Eighteenth Day of October, yearly, not being Sunday,
otherwise to
begin on the Day following, and to continue the said Fairs not more
than
Three Days each, Sundays exclusive; and that during such Continuance
of
the said Fair or Fairs, all Persons within the Bounds of said Town
and Common,
shall be Privileged from all Arrests, except for Felony and Breach
of
the Peace; as also all Persons coming to and returning from the said
Fair or
Fairs, have the like Privilege for one Day before and after the same.
And
the said Commissioners have also hereby Power and Authority, to make
and
appoint such good Rules and Orders, to be observed in Holding the same,
as
may tend to prevent all Disorders and Inconveniencies that may therein
happen.
XXIV. And be
it also Enacted,
That the Commissioners aforesaid, may
employ some Person, if Occasion should be, to Register their Proceedings,
at
their appointed or annual Meetings, at Charles-Town aforesaid;
and that they
are hereby impowered to pay the said Register, or Person by them employed
for that Purpose, out of the Fines and Forfeitures, or other Public
Money,
so as the Expence thereof do not exceed Five Pounds in any one Year.
XXV. And whereas
John
Veazy, the present Deputy-Surveyor of Cæcil
County, has not only been at extraordinary Trouble, in Surveying and
Laying
out the said Charles-Town, but likewise hath been obliged to
pay several Sums
of Money to Chain-bearers, and other Labourers, and his own necessary
Expences,
to the Value of more than the Allowance made to him by the Act
for Laying our the said Town; Be it therefore
Enacted, That the Justices of
Cæcil County aforesaid, shall, and are hereby enabled
and required, at the
Laying of the next Levy, to tax and levy the Sum of Two Thousand Pounds
of Tobacco, on the Taxable Inhabitants of the said County, with the
Sheriff's
Commission thereon, which Sum of Two Thousand Pounds of Tobacco,
so levied, shall be paid by the Sheriff of said County to the said
John
Veazy, for his Services and Expence aforesaid.
XXVI. And whereas
the
small Number of Lots directed to be laid out in
Charles-Town aforesaid, were not sufficient to accommodate the
great Number
of Persons appearing willing to enter, and pay for the same, whereby
great
Numbers (to prevent Contests) were obliged and willing to join Two
of their
Names to One Lot, to be divided between them: To prevent therefore
the
Trouble and Charge of Executing and Recording Deeds or other Instruments,
as may be reason thereof be occasioned; Be
it therefore Enacted, That
all such
Persons, who on the Day of Balloting for the Lots in Charles-Town
aforesaid,
entered Two of their Names for One Lot, reference being had to the
Clerk's Entry on that Day made and taken, may at any Time, within Twelve
Months after the End of this Session of Assembly, have Liberty to enter
with the said Clerk, such equal Division, or distinct Moiety f such
Lot or
Lots, as shall be agreed on by the said Two parties; which Agreement
or
Division, the said Clerk shall enter on the Record-Book to be kept
for said
Town, and shall receive for each Entry One Shilling; and such Entry
or Record
made by the said Clerk in the Book aforesaid, and both, or either of
the
Parties, performing the Requisites required for saving Lots by the
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