III.  And be it Enacted, That the said Commissioners herein nominated
for each respective Town in each County aforesaid, or the major Part of them,
are hereby impowered, some Time before the Five and twentieth Day of February,
in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Six Hundred and Ninety four,
to meet together upon the respective Lands and Places for Towns before
mentioned, and that then and there Teat with and Agree with the Owners 
and all Persons interested in the said Lands, and buy and purchase of such
Owners and Persons interested in the said Lands, One Hundred Acres of the
said Lands, at the Discretion of the Commissioners aforesaid, least prejudicial
to the Owners.  And, after Purchase, shall cause the same to be Surveyed,
and, after Survey so made, shall cause the same to be marked, staked out, 
and divided into convenient Streets, Lanes and Alleys, with open spare Places
to be left, on which may be erected a Church, Chapel, Market-House or
other Public Building, and the remaining Part of the said One Hundred Acres
to be divided into One Hundred equal Lots, marked on some Posts or Stakes
towards the Streets or Lanes with the Number One, Two, or Three, Four, and so
to an Hundred:  Out of which Lots the Owner of such lands shall have the
first Choice for one Lot; and no Person shall purchase more than one Lot,
during the space of one Year after the said Five and twentieth Day of February,
except his Excellency Francis Nicholson, Esq; Governor of this Province,
who shall have the next immediate Choice of One, Two, or Three Lots
in each or either of the said Towns, if his Excellency so pleases.  After
which, the Lots shall be taken up by the Inhabitants of the Counties only,
during Six Months after laying out the same.  And if the Inhabitants shall
not take up the same Lots in the Time aforesaid, it shall then be free for any
Person or Persons whatsoever, to take up the said Lot or Lots, paying the
Owner proportionably for the same.

    IV.  And in case any Person or Persons shall wilfilly refuse to make Sale of
any such Lands herein before mentioned; or any Person of Persons, through
Non-age, Coverture, or Non sane Memorii, or other Impediment or Disability
whatsoever, that then the Commissioners aforesaid, nominated for each respective
Town, are hereby authorized, by virtue of this Act, to issue out
Warrants to the Sheriffs of the said Counties, to impower him to impannel
and return a Jury of Free-holders, to appear before the said Commissioners;
which Jury, upon their Oaths, to be administered by the said Commissioners,
are to enquire and assess such Damages and Recompence as they shall think fit,
ti be awarded to the Owners, and all Persons interested, according to their
several and respective Interests in the said Land or any Part thereof.  And
what Sum of Tobacco the said Jury shall adjudge the said Land to be worth,
shall be paid to the said Owners and Persons interested, by such Person or Persons,
as shall take up the said respective Lot or Lots proportionably thereunto.

    V.  And the said Commissioners, or the major Part of them, are hereby
impowered, by respective Warrants under their Hands and Seals, to summon
the Surveyor-General, or the Surveyor of the County, to survey and lay out
the said One Hundred Acres, in the Places aforementioned, in Manner and
Form as aforesaid, to be marked and staked out as aforesaid.  And when the
same is so Surveyed and laid out as aforesaid, and Valued as aforesaid, that
then, whosoever shall make choice of any such Lot as aforesaid, and make
Entry thereof, before and with the Officer and person, as by the Commissioners
shall be appointed to keep the Book for Entry of the same, and pay
such Sum, or Quantity of Tobacco, as shall, by the Discretion of the Commissioners,
be rated upon such Lot, and payable to the Owner of the said