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SEC. 4. And be it enacted, That where the proprietor or pro-
prietors, possessor or possessors, of any lands within the limits
of the city of Washington, or within the limits of Carrollsburgh
or Hamburgh, who have not already, or who shall not, within
three months after the passage of this act, execute deeds in trust
to the aforesaid Thomas Beall and John M. Gantt, of all their
lands within the limits of the said city of Washington, and on
the terms and conditions mentioned in the deeds already execu-
ted by Notley Young, and others, and execute deeds in trust to
the said Thomas Beall and John M. Gantt, of all their lots in
the towns of Carrollsburgh and Hamburgh, on the same terms
and conditions contained in the deeds already executed by the
greater part of the proprietors of lots in the said towns, the said
commissioners, or any two of them, shall and may, at any time
or times thereafter, issue a process, directed to the sheriff of
Prince George's county, commanding him, in the name of the
state, to summon five good substantial freeholders, who are not
of kin to any proprietor or proprietors of the lands aforesaid, and
who are not proprietors themselves, to meet on a certain day,
and at a certain place, within the limits of the said city, to
inquire of the value of the estate of such proprietor or proprie-
tors, possessor or possessors, on which day and place the said
sheriff shall attend, with the freeholders by him summoned;
which freeholders shall take the following oath, or affirmation,
on the land to be by them valued, to wit : 'I, A. B. do solemnly
swear, (or affirm,) that I will, to the best of my judgment, value
the lands of G. D. now to be valued, so as to do equal right and
justice to the said O. D. and to the public, taking into conside-
ration all circumstances,' and shall then proceed to value the
said lands ; and such valuation, under their hands and seals,
and under the hand and seal of the said sheriff, shall be
annexed to the said process, and returned by the sheriff to the
clerk appointed by virtue of this act, who shall make record of
the same, and the said lands shall, on the payment of such
valuation, be and is hereby vested in the said commissioners in
trust, to be disposed of by them, or otherwise employed to the
use of the said city of Washington ; and the sheriff aforesaid,
and freeholders aforesaid, shall be allowed the same fees* for
their trouble as are allowed to a sheriff and jurymen in execu-
ting a writ of inquiry ; and in all cases where the proprietor or
possessor is tenant in right of dower, or by the courtesy, the
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Commis-
sioners, in
certain
cases, may
issue pro-
cess, &c.
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