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SAMUEL OGLE, Esq; Governor.
1751.
David Lynn, shall be, and are hereby, appointed Commissioners for Frederick
County aforesaid; and are hereby authorized and impowered, as well to Buy
and Purchase Sixty Acres, part of the Tracts of Land belonging to Messieurs
George Gordon and George Bell, at the Place aforesaid, where it shall appear
to them, or the major Part of them, to be most convenient as to Survey and
Lay out, or cause the same to be Surveyed and laid out, in the best and most
convenient Manner, into Eighty Lots, to be Erected into a Town.

    III.  And be it further Enacted, by the Authority, Advice and Consent aforesaid,
That the Commissioners aforesaid before nominated and appointed, or
the major Part of them, are hereby impowered and required, at some Time,
by them or the major Part of them, to be appointed, before the First Day of
October next, to meet together on the Land aforesaid, or at some other Place
near and convenient thereto, and then and there Treat and Agree (if the same
can be done on reasonable Terms) with the Owner or Owners, and Person
or Persons, interested in the same Sixty Acres of Land, for the purchase
thereof.  And if it shall happen, that the said Owner or Owners, Person or
Persons, will not Agree with the said Commissioners for such Rate or Price
as they the said Commissioners, or the major Part of them, shall think Reasonable,
or shall refuse to make Sale of the same; or that through Non-age,
Coverture, or any other Disability or Impediment, shall be disabled to make
such Sale, that then and in any such Case, the Commissioners aforesaid, or
the major Part of them, shall, and are hereby impowered and required, to
issue a Warrant under their Hands and Seals, directed to the Sheriff or Coroner
of Frederick County aforesaid for the Time being, commanding him to
Summon and Impannel a Jury of Seventeen good and lawful Men, Freeholders
of his Bailiwick, to be and appear at the Day and Place in such Warrant
to be mentioned; which Sheriff is hereby required and obliged to execute the
same:  And the Jury, being by the said Commissioners Charged and Sworn,
shall, upon their Oath, enquire, assess, and return, what Damages or Recompence
they shall think fit to be paid and given to such Owner or Owners,
Person or Persons, for the Sixty Acres of Land aforesaid; and that whatever
Sum or Sums of Money such Jury shall so assess and award, shall, and is
hereby declared to be the Value and Price to be paid to such Owner or Owners,
Person or Persons, interested in the Sixty Acres of Land aforesaid.  But
if the said Jury shall assess and value the said Land at a less Price than Fifty
Shillings Current Money for each Acre, then in such Case, the Purchaser 
or Purchasers of such Land shall pay such further Sum, over and above
what shall be the Valuation of the said Jury, as shall make up the full Sum
of Fifty Shillings like Money as aforesaid for every Acre, to be paid to such
Proprietor or Proprietors as aforesaid.

    IV.  And be it further Enacted, by the Authority, Advice and Consent aforesaid,
That after the Agreement and Purchase of the Commissioners aforesaid,
or after the Assessment and Return of the Jury aforesaid, as the Case shall
happen, the aforesaid Commissioners, or the major Part of them, shall, and
are hereby required to, cause the same Sixty Acres of Land to be carefully
Surveyed, Divided, and Laid out, by the Surveyor of the County aforesaid,
or such other Person as they, or the major Part of them, shall make choice
of and appoint for that Purpose, as near as conveniently may be into Eighty
equal Lots, allowing such sufficient Space or Quantity thereof for Streets,
Lanes, and Alleys, as to them shall seem meet; and the same Lots so Laid
out, shall Number with Numbers, One, Two, and Three, and so to Eighty,
for distinguishing each Lot from the other; and shall cause the Streets,
Lanes, and Alleys to be named and distinguished by certain Names, and by
good sufficient Cedar or Locust Posts to be set up as a Boundary to each of
them.

    V.  And be it further Enacted, by the Authority, Advice and Consent aforesaid,
That the Commissioners., or the major Part of them, shall, and are
 

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and to purchase
the
Land by Agreement
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The Lots to

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