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188 WILLIAMS'
by the name of 210 Hills, and about two miles from Ceresville,
which land had been reserved for the use of the said farm, to be
worth two thousand five hundred and twenty-five dollars, or fifteen
dollars per acre. To account for the apparent difference in value
of the above named tracts of land they observe, that this latter
tract was only valuable for the wood thereon; that it was without
improvements, and almost valueless for all purposes of cultivation.
The commissioners further reported, that after lull and mature
consideration of every thing connected with the property; and the
infant owners thereof, they were decidedly of opinion and so de-
termined, that a sale of said form and improvements thereon, and
the one hundred and seventy acres of woodland in The Hills,
would be to the interest and advantage of the infants; and they
submitted the following reasons upon which they had principally
founded their opinion and judgment.
First. They considered the location of Ceresville unfortunate as
regards roads and water courses; and, they thought, shewed dis-
tinctly and strongly how necessary it was, that it should be under
the management of a vigilant, industrious and keen-eyed proprie-
tor. If this be the fact, which none can doubt who know the
property, it consequently followed, that it must be an unprofitable
estate to the infants who then owned it; and who must depend
upon tenants to exercise that care and attention which it required.
Ceresville was bounded on one side by the river Monocacy, and
nearly so on the opposite one by Israel's creek; these streams,
when overcharged with water, were extremely rapid, and often
very destructive to fences on their margins. This farm had suf-
fered very considerably by such overflowings within the last fifteen
months. Again two of the most public roads in the county passed,
at nearly right angles, through the farm, inviting trespass at every
Step, often subjecting the owner to loss; and always to the heavy
and annual expense of keeping in repair a long line of fences on
each side of those roads, in a country where the proper materials
for making them were known to be very costly.
Secondly. The mills were liable to many of the objections
against their tenure, by the infants, to which the farm was sub-
ject; and, in some respects, the objections were stronger. To
carry on the milling business to any advantage a large capital,
and full practical knowledge, were absolutely necessary; and to
the tail], although a large nominal rent might be obtained,
the immense deductions on account of repairs, regular and acci-
dental, would reduce it to a very small net amount.
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