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JOHN EAGER HOWARD, Esquire, Governor.
said commissioners, and shall thereto annex a full and plain certificate
of such
survey, and of the actual boundaries, courses, distances, quantity of acres,
and
such other particulars as shall be directed as aforesaid, and shall subscribe
and seal
the same. |
1790.
CHAP.
XLIII. |
V. And be it
enacted, That the said surveyor, under the directions of the said
commissioners, shall lay off the quantity of lands reserved for the said
Indians as
is herein before mentioned, including their present settlement and a suitable
proportion
of the woodland, and shall distinctly mark and bound the same; and
thereupon the said surveyor, under the direction of the said commissioners,
shall
proceed to lay off the remaining lands in lots, each lot to contain not
less than
one hundred, nor more than three hundred acres, unless a departure from
this direction
should become necessary by the interference of creeks, branches, roads
or
angles, and in laying off the said lots due regard shall be had to situation,
soil,
timber, and other circumstances, so as to make them as equal in value as
the nature
of the subject will admit, and each respective lot shall be numbered,
marked
and bounded, in such manner as shall be directed by the said commissioners,
and
the land, reserved as aforesaid, and the said respective lots, shall
be located, distinguished
and numbered, upon the said plot, and distinct certificates of their respective
bounds and quantities shall be likewise annexed and subscribed by the said
surveyor. |
Surveyor to
lay off land,
&c. |
VI. And be it
enacted, That the said surveyor, under the directions of the said
commissioners, shall lay off a road through the said lands to unite at
each end
thereof with the main road leading from Cambridge to New-Market, in the
said
county, of the width of forth feet clear of ditches, fences, or other incumbrances,
and as streight in its direction as the branches, soil and situation of
the
ground will permit, and a location of the said road, so laid off, shall
likewise be
made upon the plot, and certified by the said surveyor; and the said commissioners
shall immediately thereafter cause the said road to be made, cleared, grubbed,
ditched and ploughed up, in all such places where such respective labour
may be
necessary, and shall cause the same to be completed, and afterwards
examined by
two of the neighbouring magistrates; and when the said road shall be completed
and examined as aforesaid, if the said magistrates shall approve thereof,
a certificate
of such road shall be returned by them to the county court of the said
county
to be recorded, and the same shall be thereafter deemed and taken as a
public road. |
A road to be
laid off, &c. |
VII. And be
it enacted, That the said commissioners shall keep and subscribe
a fair account of their proceedings and lawful expenditures in the execution
of
their trust; and immediately after the duties herein before prescribed
shall be performed,
their said proceedings and expenditures, together with a correct duplicate
of the plot, and certificates of the said surveyor, shall be transmitted
by the said
commissioners to the treasurer of the eastern shore; and the original plot
and certificates
of the said surveyor shall be deposited in the office of the clerk of the
county, to e filed by him and retained for safe custody. |
Commissioners
to keep a
fair account,
&c. |
VIII. And be
it enacted, That the said treasurer, in a convenient time after
the
receipt of such proceedings, shall give public notice for the space of
six weeks,
by advertisements to be inserted in the Easton, Baltimore, and Annapolis
news-papers,
and set up in public places in the neighbouring counties, that the
said Indian
Lands aforesaid are allotted and intended for public sale, at a certain
time and
place to be mentioned in such advertisements, and the said treasurer
shall accordingly
attend at the time and place appointed, and shall proceed to expose the
said lots
to sale by the acre;; and the same shall be respectively struck off to
the highest
bidder upon the following terms, and not otherwise: The purchaser
shall pay into
the hands of the treasurer one eighth part of the purchase money, and
shall
give bond to this state, with approved security, for the payment of the
balance of
the said purchase money in specie, in three annual instalments; the land
belonging
to the purchasers, and their securities, at the time of such sale, shall
be bound
from the passage of their respective bonds for the payment of the purchase
money,
or so much thereof as may be due; and on a compliance with the foregoing |
Treasurer to
give notice,
&c. |
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