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WILLIAM SMALLWOOD, Esq; Governor.
III. And be it
enacted, That Joseph Richardson, junior, William
Whitely, John White, Philemon Downes, and David Robinson, shall be,
and are hereby appointed commissioners for Caroline county aforesaid;
and in case any of the said commissioners should die, refuse to act,
or remove out of the county, that the others, or the major part of them,
shall elect other persons as commissioners in their room, and they, or
any
three or more of them, shall be, and they are hereby authorised and required
to demand, sue for, recover and receive, all monies or tobacco heretofore
levied and collected, and the same, when so as aforesaid received, to apply
to the uses by the act directed; and the said commissioners, or the major
part of them, are hereby authorised and required to contract and agree
for
the building of the said court-house and prison, at the place aforesaid. |
1785.
CHAP.
XXXI.
Commissioners
appointed,
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IV. And be it
enacted, That the said commissioners, or a major part
of them, shall have full power and authority, at any time before the
first
day of June next, to agree with the owner or owners of the land at the
place aforesaid, for the purchase of two acres thereof, most convenient
and
proper for a court-house and gaol to be erected on, and if such land can
be purchased, a deed shall be taken for the same from the owner or owners
to the justices of Caroline county, and their successors for ever; and
if the
commissioners aforesaid, cannot purchase the lands aforesaid from the owner
or owners, by the day aforesaid, or the owner or owners should be under
any disability to convey the same, then the said commissioners, or a
majority of them, shall, as soon as may be thereafter, cause to be surveyed,
laid out, and plotted, two acres of land at the place aforesaid, the
most
convenient for the purposes aforesaid; and the said commissioners, or a
majority of them, by warrant under their hands, direct the sheriff of the
said county to summon, and cause to come at the place aforesaid, on a certain
day in such warrant to be mentioned, eighteen good and sufficient
men of the county aforesaid, none of whom to be interested in the said
land, or related to the owner or owners; and thereupon the sheriff of the
said county shall summon such eighteen good and sufficient men aforesaid,
under the penalty of twenty pounds current money; and every person so
summoned shall attend agreeably to the summon, unless prevented by sickness
or other unavoidable accident, under the penalty of five pounds current
money; and the persons so summoned, shall, at the place aforesaid,
on the day mentioned in the warrant aforesaid, or on any other day to be
appointed by the said commissioners, be balloted by the said commissioners,
or a majority of them, and the twelve first drawn shall be a jury to
value the land so laid out by the commissioners; and each of them shall
take an oath, to be administered by any one of the said commissioners,
well
and truly to value the said land laid out by the commissioners, according
to its actual and real worth, without favour, partiality and prejudice;
and
the said jury, having taken the oath aforesaid, shall value the said land
so
laid out by the commissioners for the purpose aforesaid, and shall enter
their valuation in writing, and subscribe their names to the same; and
the
valuation of the said jury, or a majority of them, shall be binding
on all
parties; and upon the payment or tender of the sum at which the jury
aforesaid value the land aforesaid to the owner or owners thereof, by the
commissioners, such land shall be vested in the justices of the said county
and their successors, for ever, for the purposes aforesaid; and if
by any accident
the land aforesaid shall not be valued under the warrant first issued
for the purpose aforesaid, the said commissioners, or a majority of them,
shall issue another warrant for the purpose aforesaid, and if by any accident
the land aforesaid shall not be valued under the warrant first issued
for the purpose aforesaid, the said commissioners, or a majority of them,
shall issue another warrant for the purposes aforesaid, upon which there
shall be similar proceedings as above directed by the first warrant,
and so
toties quoties until the said land is properly valued; ad the money
agreed
to be paid for the said land by the commissioners, or the value ascertained
by a jury as aforesaid, shall be paid out of the first money which comes
into the hands of the said commissioners in virtue of this act; and the
said |
Who are to agree
for land,
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