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16 FREDERICK Lord BALTIMORE.
" tides, and shall make the same sufficiently firm and complete, to
prevent any
" sand, gravel or dirt, from washing through the same into the water; and
shall
" also well and sufficiently cover all such marshy ground with stones,
gravel, sand
" or dirt, so as to raise the same, not less than two feet above the level
of the common
" flood tides as aforesaid, and make and render the whole sufficiently
firm,
" then the above obligation to be void, else to be and remain in full force
and virtue
" in law. |
Else to be laid
out into lots,
and sold. |
III. And be
it further enacted, That the commissioners aforesaid, or the major
part of them, shall and may, at some convenient time before the last day
of February
next, cause all the said marshy ground to be laid out into distinct lots,
each lot
not to contain more than one eighth part of an acre, leaving such convenient
streets, lanes and alleys, as to the said commissioners, or the major part
of them,
shall seem meet; and that in case the said Thomas Harrison, Alexander Lawson,
and Brian Philpot, or either of them, shall neglect or refuse, within the
said time
of one calendar month, from and after the end of this present session of
assembly,
to make such election or determination, or to execute such bond as aforesaid,
the
said commissioners, or the major part of them, shall sell and dispose of
the said
lots, within six months next after the neglect or refusal of the aforesaid
Thomas
Harrison, Alexander Lawson, and Brian Philpot, respectively, as aforesaid,
to the
highest bidder, first giving notice of such sale in the Maryland and Pennsylvania
Gazettes, sixty days at the least before the same. |
And to be
part of the
town. |
IV. And be it
further enacted, That when the commissioners aforesaid shall
have surveyed and laid out the said marshy ground into lots, it shall be,
and is hereby
declared to be part of Baltimore-town aforesaid, to all intents and purposes
whatsoever, as fully and amply as if included originally therein, and have
the same
immunities and privileges as the rest of the said town have, or by former
laws ought
to have. |
Commissioners
power to
make sufficient
conveyances.
On condition. |
V. And it is
hereby further enacted, That upon the sale of any such part or
parcels of ground as aforesaid, the said commissioners, or the major part
of them,
shall have full power to make and execute sufficient conveyances in the
law, for
securing to the purchasers a good and sufficient title in fee-simple to
the said lots
or parcels of ground, which said conveyances shall be upon an express condition.
That in case the purchasers of such lots or parcels of ground, shall not,
within
eighteen calendar months next after the date of such conveyances, well
and sufficiently
wharf in and secure all such marshy ground next the water, so by them respectively
purchased, with a good and sufficient stone wall, not less than two feet
thick, and two feet high at the least from the level of the height of the
common
flood tides, or with hewed logs of the same height at least from the level
of
the common flood tides, and shall not make the same sufficiently firm and
complete,
to prevent any sand, gravel or dirt, from washington through the same into
the
water, and also well and sufficiently cover all such marshy ground, so
by
them respectively purchased, with gravel, sand, dirt or stone, so as to
raise
the same not less than the said height above the said level, and make and
render
the whole sufficiently firm and secure to erect any buildings thereon,
that then it
shall and may be lawful for the said commissioners, or the major part of
them, to
re-enter, and the same to have again. |
Purchasers to
have liberty
to pass thereon
with carriages,
&c. |
VI. And be it
further enacted, That all and every person or persons whatsoever,
purchasing any lot or lots of ground from the commissioners, or the major
part of
them aforesaid, and all claiming by, from, or under such purchaser or purchasers,
shall have free liberty of passing and repassing, by themselves, and their
servants
and slave, with carts, horses and carriages of all sorts, over all parts
of the said
marsh, to the part so purchased, until the first day of January which shall
be in
the year one thousand seven hundred and sixty-nine. |
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VII. And whereas,
sundry persons hold small parts of the said miry marsh by
lease, for life or years, from the said Thomas Harrison, rendering an annual
rent
for the same: Be it enacted,
That unless the said lessees of the said Thomas Harrison, |
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