CHAP.
VIII.
Privilege of
Inhabitants
in Payment
of Tobacco.
Rights of former
Purchasers
confirmed.
Town-Common. |
Land; and on such Lot shall build one Twenty Foot square Dwelling-House
at least, within Twelve Months after taking up the same, unless such
Building
be larger than herein expressed, shall, by Virtue thereof, and of the
Building and Finishing as aforesaid, invest the Taker-up and Builder
as aforesaid,
with an Estate of Inheritance in the said Lot, to him, his Heirs and
Assigns, for Ever; and be a perpetual Bar to the Owners and Persons
interested
in the said Lands, either within or without this Province, even against
his Lordship the Right Honourable CHARLES Lord Baron of Baltimore,
Lord Proprietary of this Province, his Heirs and Successors; yielding
and
paying to the said Lord Proprietary, his Heirs and Successors for ever,
the
yearly Rent of One Penny current Money for each respective Lot as aforesaid.
And that the Surveyors of each Town and Port as aforesaid, shall have
and receive such Fees and Rewards, for laying out and staking the Towns
and Lots as aforesaid, as the said Commissioners shall allow and settle,
and
no more.
VI. And any
Person or Persons that shall build and inhabit in such Port or
Town, and shall owe any Sum or Sums of Tobacco, and will pay the same
in such Town, he shall be allowed Ten per Cent, for every Hogshead
of Four
Hundred WEight, and upwards, so paid in Towns, to be deducted out of
the
Debt aforesaid, or pleadable in Bar of the Creditor.
VII. And be it
further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, by and with the
Advice and Consent aforesaid, That any Person or Persons that
have heretofore
taken up any Lot or Lots, in either of the Towns, by Virtue of any
former
Law of this Province, and built thereon, according to the same former
Law,
they, and every of them, their Heirs and Assigns, shall have and enjoy
a good
and sure Estate and Inheritance to them, and their Heirs for ever,
under the
Rents and Services herein mentioned: And the several Lots, so
built on, shall
be deemed and taken as Part of the One Hundred Lots as aforesaid, and
the
same Town laid out as conveniently thereunto as may be.
VIII. And be
it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That at the
Town and Port at Severn in Ann-Arundel County, shall
be bought, or valued
by the Jury, as before in this Act is mentioned, all that Parcel or
Neck of
Land, within Leavy-Neck Cove and Acton's Cove, lying
and adjoining, or
near, to the said Town Land as aforesaid, or so much thereof as by
the Commissioners
shall be found convenient, to be fenced in, and called The Town-Common,
or Pasture, and Paid for, and Fenced in, at the Public Charge:
And
shall be for the public Use and Service, when Need shall require.
And that
the Inhabitants of the said Towns shall not raise any Stock or Cattle
or Hogs,
Horses or Sheep, more than what they can contain and raise upon their
respective
Lot or Lots, and not more, at the Discretion of the Commissioners
of the said Towns.
Examined and Compared with the Record, REVERDY GHISELIN,
THOMAS BACON.
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