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WILLIAM SMALLWOOD, Esq; Governor.
surveyed and laid out into lots, lanes and alleys, by the commissioners
of
confiscated British property, and others, agreeably to the surveys heretofore
made,
and the same, when surveyed, to lay out into lots, streets, lanes and alleys,
and
a correct and accurate plot thereof returned to the clerk of Cæcil
county, by him
to be recorded among the land records of the said county, and kept in the
said
office, and the same, or a copy thereof, shall always be evidence as to
the streets,
lanes and alleys, and the bounds and lines of lots in the said town. |
1787.
CHAP.
XXXI. |
X. And be it
enacted, That the said commissioners, or a major part of them,
shall cause all the lots in the said town to be substantially and fairly
bounded and
numbered, and marked with the name of the present occupant or owner, if
known; and it shall be the duty of the commissioners, and their successors,
from
time to time hereafter, to see that the said boundaries be kept up and
preserved,
and to hinder encroachments to be made on any of the streets, lanes,
alleys, or
public grounds aforesaid. |
Who shall
cause lots to
be bounded,
&c. |
XI. And be it
enacted, That when the commissioners aforesaid shall have
completed their survey as aforesaid, which they are hereby required to
do within
two years, and shall have caused the same to be recorded among the land
records
of Cæcil county the town aforesaid, heretofore called the Head of
Elk, shall
be for ever hereafter called and known by the name of Elkton. |
WHen surveyed,
&c.
to be called
Elkton, &c. |
XII. And, that
a succession of commissioners, who may be zealous to
promote the convenience and interest of the inhabitants, may be provided
for,
Be it enacted, That on the Easter
Monday yearly, or as soon thereafter as
may be convenient, and every year after the survey aforesaid shall be completed
and recorded, the inhabitants of the town aforesaid, qualified by the constitution
and form of government, shall assemble and make choice of seven men, being
either inhabitants of the town aforesaid, or having a real estate therein
worth
three hundred pounds current money at the least, which seven men, so chosen,
shall be the commissioners of the said town, and the trustees of the school
in
said town, called the Town School, for and during the year next after their
election as aforesaid. |
Seven commissioners
to
be chosen annually,
&c. |
XIII. And be
it enacted, That the commissioners of the said town, or a major
part of them, shall have full power and authority to employ a clerk, and
at
their pleasure to displace him and choose another, who shall, before he
acts as
such, take the following oath, or affirmation, if a quaker, menonist
or dunker:
" I, A. B. do swear, or affirm, that as clerk of the commissioners of Elkton,
I will behave and demean myself diligently, faithfully and honestly, in
the several
duties of my said office, according to the best of my skill and knowledge.
So
help me God;" and that it shall be the duty of the said clerk of the
said commissioners,
fairly and honestly to enter in a book to be kept for that purpose, all
the proceedings of the said commissioners relating to the said town, in
which
book, among other things, shall be kept a fair plot of said town, in which
lot by its number, and who the present occupant and owner is, and shall
also
duly attend the markets in said town, and use his best endeavours that
the regulations
of the said market above mentioned shall be observed, and that no false
weights or measures be used, or unwholesome provisions be sold, or offered
to
sale, in said market, and shall have power to try any weights and measures
used
in said market, and when found faulty, the same to seize, which weights
and measures
so seized shall be forfeited, and sold for the use of the said town; the
said
clerk shall also have power to seize and destroy any meat or other victuals
that shall
Be unwholesome, or unsound and offensive, and offered for sale in the said
market;
and it shall also be the duty of the clerk of the commissioners, while
in office,
to take the votes of the inhabitants when the commissioners are elected. |
Who may
employ a
clerk, &c. |
XIV. And be
it enacted, That the commissioners aforesaid, and their successors,
or a major part of them, are hereby empowered to rent out the stalls in
the
market to be erected aforesaid, and to impose such toll on provisions sold
in the
said market, not exceeding the twentieth part of the value of such provisions,
as |
And rent out
the stalls, &c. |
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