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ROBERT BOWIE, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.
be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners, who shall, on
or before the first day of August next, meet at Barnsville aforesaid,
and having so met, the said commissioners, or any two of
them, shall have power and authority to direct the surveyor of
Montgomery county, or any person they may think proper to appoint,
to survey the said town and the several lots therein; and
make out an exact plot thereof, and shall ascertain and limit the extent
of the lots, streets and lanes thereof, most agreeably to their
original location, according to the best evidence that can be obtained;
and the said lots so laid out, shall by them be numbered one,
two, three and so on, for distinguishing each lot from the other, and
shall cause the said streets and lanes to be named by certain names;
and the said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall have power
to adjourn from day to day till the duties imposed by this act are
fully performed. |
1811.
CHAP. 62. |
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said lots when
they are surveyed
and laid out by the commissioners aforesaid, or a majority
of them, shall be, and are hereby erected into a town, to be called
and known by the name of Barnsville; and the said commissioners,
of a majority of them, are hereby directed to return a correct certificate
and plot of the said lots to the clerk of Montgomery county
court, who is hereby required to record the same among the land
records of said county, and keep the original certificate and plot
in his office, and a certified copy of the original, or record, or any
part thereof, shall be conclusive evidence as to the bounds and lines
of the said town and the lots thereof. |
Lots erected into a
town. Plot to be
recorded. |
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
or a majority
of them, are hereby authorised and required, (having first
given twenty days notice of the time and place of their meeting, by
public advertisement,) to issue summonses for such person or persons
as may be applied for by any of the proprietors aforesaid,
which said witnesses are hereby required to attend under the penalty
of five dollars for every neglect or refusal, and to examine them
upon their corporal oath or affirmation, (as the case may be,) touching
and concerning their knowledge of the bounds, limits and extent
of any of the lots, streets and lanes of the said town, and establish
the same accordingly; and each witness attending under any
summons issued as aforesaid, shall be entitled to receive one dollar
for every day he shall so attend. |
Witnesses may be
summoned to ascertain
boundaries
of lots, &c. |
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the
duty of the proprietors
of the lots, or any part of a lot in the said town, to provide
boundary stones, and to have them marked and set up at the
termination of the line or lines of their respective lots, in the presence
of the said commissioners or a majority of them, which shall
thereafter be deemed and taken to be the true bounds of the said
lots, or any of them. |
Proprietors to provide
boundary
stones. |
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, If any of the commissioners
shall die,
refuse, neglect, or be rendered incapable to act, the remaining commissioner
or commissioners may appoint some other person in the
place of the person or persons who shall so die, refuse, neglect or
be incapable to act. |
Commissioners to
fill up their own
vacancies. |
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That each of the said
commissioners
shall be allowed two dollars per day, for each and every day they
shall attend as commissioners aforesaid, and that the surveyor shall |
Commissioners &
surveyors compensation. |
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