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HORATIO SHARPE, Esq; Governor.
Indians, so long as they shall occupy the same; which said three thousand
acres
having been paid for by the public, when the said Indians should cease
to occupy,
is by the said last recited act, to be disposed of as the general assembly
shall direct
and appoint. |
1768.
CHAP.
VII. |
II. Be it therefore
enacted, by the right honourable the lord proprietary, by
and with the advice and consent of his lordship's governor, and the upper
and lower
houses of assembly, and the authority of the same, That the committee
appointed
this present session of assembly to inspect the accounts and proceedings
of the
commissioners, appointed by virtue of the act for the payment of the public
claims,
for emitting bills of credit, and for other purposes therein mentioned,
are hereby
directed and required to pay to the said Amos Ogden, for the use of the
said Nanticoke
Indians, the said six hundred and sixty-six dollars, and two thirds of
a
dollar, out of the bills of credit now in the office, belonging to the
country, in
full satisfaction for the said tribe of Nanticoke Indians, their claim
to the said
lands, and to take his receipt for the same, which payment shall, to all
intents
and purposes, vest the said Robert Darnall and Sarah his wife, Henry Steele
and
Anne his wife, and John Henry and Dorothy his wife, with the same right
of
entry in and claim to the said three tracts of land, called The Reserve,
Handsell,
and Bartholomew's Close, as if the said Indians had totally deserted and
quitted
claim to the same; any thing in any other act of assembly to the contrary
notwithstanding. |
A committee
of the assembly
empowered
to pay the
Indian agent
for their
lands, &c. |
III. And be
it further enacted, That Messieurs William Allen, Levin Gale,
and Henry Steele, are hereby appointed commissioners, and they, or any
two of
them, are empowered to make sale of the aforesaid three thousand acres
of land,
lying on Broad-creek, as aforesaid, by way of vendue, to the highest bidder,
(giving
at least two months notice of such sale in the Maryland and Pennsylvania
gazettes)
the whole together, or divided into parcels, as shall best suit the purchasers,
and make a conveyance or conveyances thereof; the said sale to be made
at
twelve months credit, if required by any of the purchasers, they paying
interest
from the time of the sale, and giving bond or bonds, with sureties to be
approved
by the said commissioners, to the treasurer of the eastern shore for the
time
being, for the use of this province; which bond or bonds, or money arising
on
the sale, (if any of the purchasers should choose to pay the money) the
said commissioners
shall return and pay to the said treasurer, and take his receipt for the
same,
and shall also return the said receipt to the next general assembly after
such sale,
as well as an account of their proceedings and expences therein, which
expences,
together with a commission of five per cent. on the money for which the
said
lands shall be sold, shall be paid to the said commissioners, out of the
bills of credit
in the office belonging to the country, and they, the said commissioners,
shall
then be fully discharged of their said trust, and shall not be any further
answerable
therefor. |
Commissioners
appointed
to make public
sale thereof,
&c.
The proceeds
to be paid to
the treasurer
of the eastern
shore, &c.
An account
to be return'd
to the general
assembly, &c. |
CHAP. VIII.
A Supplementary ACT to the act, entitled, An act for erecting a new
parish in
Kent county, called Chester parish, and for building
a parish church, and enlarging
a chapel of ease within the said parish.
Part of the public ground in Chester-town,
at the corner of High-street, and Cross-street, of the extent
of 90 feet on the former and 120 feet on the latter, is appropriated for
the building a new chapel, the
yard round which is to be inclosed, but no person is to inter, or attempt
to inter, a corpse in the said
yard, without incurring the forfeiture of £. 10, to be recovered
in an action of debt, one half for the
vestry, and the other half to the person who shall sue.
James Anderson, William Ringgold, William Bordley, Emory
Sudler, and James McClean, are empowered
to contract for building the chapel with brick, on a stone foundation,
to be 60 feet long, 40 feet
wide, and two stories high. The expence is to be defrayed with the
50,000lb. of tobacco appropriated
to this use by the act of assembly to which this is a supplement, with
the money subscribed, which these
trustees are authorised to sue for, and lastly, with the money to arise
from the sale of pews and of the
materials of the old church.
In the lower part of the chapel, pews and seats are
to be erected in such manner that the proprietors of
the old church may have as good seats as they had in that church, and that
persons owning lots, and
dwelling in town, and persons subscribing to the amount of £. 10,
may have also seats or pews therein
of the same dimensions; and that those who have subscribed less than £.
10, may have each a half pew.
Mr. Thomas Marsh, on account of his having piously subscribed £.
70, on condition of his having his
choice of a pew in the said chapel, is accordingly to have his choice of
those pews, and then there shall be |
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