VI. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners, or a major part of them, are empowered
to levy, assess and take, by way of distress, if needful, from the holder or holders of any lot or lots
in the said town, by even and equal proportion, a sum not exceeding twenty dollars yearly, to be 
paid to their clerk, and also they shall have power to remove or displace their clerk, and appoint
another whenever they shall think proper.

VII. AND, whereas it may happen that persons holding lands adjoining the land laid out as afore-
said may be desirous to have some part of their land laid out and annexed to the town aforesaid,
BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners shall be and they hereby are authroised and empowered
to include in their survey of the said town all such parcels of land as may be laid out by the propri-
etors thereof for that purpose, provided that the said commissioners shall deem it for the advantage
of the said town, and the land be laid out for that purpose by the proprietors thereof before the first
day of March next.

VIII. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the parcel of ground so as aforesaid laid out by the said Gabriel
Peterson Van-Horn, and any ground which the said commissioners shall annex, when surveyed by the
said commissioners, shall be for ever hereafter called and known by the name of Van's-Ville; saving 
nevertheless to all persons not mentioned in this act their several and respective rights.

                                              CHAP. LXVII.
A Supplement to the act, * entitled, An act to erect a town in
   Talbot county.     Lib. JG. No. 3. fol. 315.

WHEREAS it is represented to this general assembly, that although the commissioners appoint-
ed in and by the original act to which this is a supplement, did proceed to survey and lay off
the ground described therein, and to divide, locate, mark and bound the same into lots, streets, lanes
and alleys, and to reserve and sell the same respectively in the manner and under the authority pre-
scribed and given by the said original act, yet the several proceedings of the said commissioners have
never been arranged, nor the plot nor certificates of the said survey, nor of the lots, streets, lanes
and alleys, been lodged with the clerk of Talbot county, nor recorded in his office, as required by
the said act:  And whereas three of the said commissioners, and the clerk and surveyor employed by
them, are deceased, and doubts may be reasonably entertained whether the two surviving commis-
sioners have now a power to complete the duties which the original commissioners were bound to
perform, and the security of purchasers and owners of lots in the said town may be greatly affected
without the aid of the legislature; therefore,

II. BE IT ENACTED, by the General Assembly of Maryland, That Hugh Sherwood, of Huntington,
and Greenbury Goldsborough, the said surviving commissioners, be authorised and empowered, and
they are hereby required, on or before the first day of April next, under the penalty of one hundred
dollars on each of them for the neglect of this duty, to deliver, or cause to be delivered, unto the
present commissioners of the town of Easton, in the said county, all and singular the memorandums,
plots, certificates, papers and proceedings, relating to the said town, as made, entered or minuted,
by the commissioners named in the said original act, and by the surveyor and clerk employed by them
for laying off the said town and entering the proceedings concerning the same; and the present
commissioners of the said town, upon receiving the same, shall require the attendance of the said
Hugh Sherwood and Greenbury Goldsborough on some convenient day or days to be by them ap-
pointed, and in their presence and with their information and assistance, shall carefully proceed to
examine, inspect and adjust, the said memorandums, plots, certificates, papers and proceedings, and
shall cause the same to be truly and faithfully recorded in a well bound book to be provided by them
for that purpose, and when the same shall be so recorded and completed, the present commissioners
of the said town, and the said Hugh Sherwood and Greenbury Goldsborough, shall certify and sub-
scribe the same; and the said book shall immediately thereafter be deposited in the office of the clerk
of Talbot county, and be received and securely kept by him and his successors as a record book of
the said county.

                                                 CHAP. LXVIII.
A Further act to establish and confirm certain acts done by persons
   holding offices of trust or profit under the government of the
   United States.     Lib. JG. No. 3. fol. 316.

WHEREAS persons in several of the counties of this state have continued to hold and exercise
certain offices therein under the government of this state, after having accepted offices of
                                                      A a a a a a 2                                                   profit

CHAP.
LXVI.
Levy money,
&c.
 
 
And include
other lands, &c.
 
 

Ground to be
called Van's-
Ville.
 
 

Passed 3d of
Jan. 1800.
* 1785, ch. 32.
Preamble.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Memoran-
dums, &c. to be
delivered, &c.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Preamble.