Maryland, now in force.
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or Surveyor of the County, to Survey and lay
out the said 100 Acres, and when the same is laid out
and valued as aforesaid, whosoever shall take up, make
entry of, and pay such sum of Tobacco as shall be rated
upon any such Lot, and build a dwelling House thereon
of 20 foot square, within a year after, shall by virtue
thereof have an Estate of Inheritance in the said Lot,
paying to Charles, Lord Baron of Baltimore, Lord Proprietary
of this Province, his Heirs and Successors, 1 d.
current Money for each respective Lot.
IV. Any Person that shall Build or
Inhabit in such
Port or Town, and owes any sum of Tobacco, and will
pay the same in such Town, shall be allowed 10 per cent.
for every Hogshead of 400 weight, to be deducted out
of the Debt.
V. All Persons that have heretofore
built upon any
Lots taken up in either of the foresaid Towns, by virtue
of any former Law, shall have and enjoy therein an
Estate of Inheritance, under the Rents herein mention'd,
and the Lots so built shall be deemed part of the 100 Lots
aforesaid.
VI. At the Town and Port of Seavern
in
Ann-Arundel
County, that parcel or neck of Land within levyneck
Cove and Acton Cove, adjoyning to the said Town, shall
be bought or valued by the Jury, paid for, and fenced in
at the publick charge, as a Common of Pasture for the
publick Use and Service.
VII. An. 7. W. & M. 1695.
p.
31. The Town Land
at Oxford in Talbot County, shall be again Surveyed and
laid out before the Commissioners in the foresaid Act
mention'd, bounding the same at low Water mark including
the Island, and so to the old Tree the Southernmost
part of the neck.
VIII. And in the said Town and Port,
as also at Ann-Arundel,
places shall be laid out and reserved for the
Building Ships and other Vessels. And the Officers of
the Lord Proprietary for recieving his Duties, shall be
obliged by themselves or Deputies, to reside at the said
Towns and Ports, for the dispatch of Ships and other
Vessels entering and clearing at the said Ports.
IX. The Port of Ann-Arundel that
for the future be
call'd Annapolis, and the Port of Oxford shall be called
Williamstadt; to which last 100 Acres of Land adjacent
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