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dence that can be obtained; and the said lots so laid out shall by
them be numbered one, two, three and so on, for distinguish
ing each lot from the other, and shall cause the said streets and
lanes to be named by certain names; and the said commission-
ers or a majority of them shall have power to adjourn from
time to time till the duties imposed by this act are fully perform-
ed..
2. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said lots when
they are surveyed and laid out by the commissioners aforesaid
or a majority of them, shall be and are hereby erected into a
town, to be called and known by the name of Bruce Ville,
and the said commissioners or a majority of them, are hereby
directed to return a correct certificate and plot of the said lots
to the clerk of Frederick county court, who is hereby required
to record the same among the land records of said county, and
keep the original certificate and plot in his office; and a certifi-
ed copy of the original, or record or any part thereof shall be
conclusive evidence as to the bounds and lines of the said town
And the tots thereof.
3. AND BE IT ENACTED, That the said commissioners
or a majority of them, are hereby authorised and required (hav-
ing first given twenty days notice of the time and place of their
meeting by public advertisement,) to issue summonses for such
person or persons as may be applied for by any of the proprie-
tors aforesaid, which said witnesses are hereby required to at-
tend under the penalty of five dollars for every neglect or refu-
sal, and to examine them upon their corporal oath or affirma-
tion, (as the case may be,) touching and concerning their
knowledge of the bounds limits and extent of any of the lots
streets and lanes of the said town, and establish the same ac-
cordingly; and such witness attending under any summons is-
sued as aforesaid, shall be entitled to receive one dollar for ev-
ery day he shall so attend.
4. AND BE IT ENACTED, That it shall be the duty of
the proprietors of the lots, or any part of a lot in the said
town, to provide boundary stones, and to have them marked
and set up at the termination of the line or lines of their res-
pective lots, in the presence of the said commissioners or a ma-
jority of them, which shall thereafter be deemed and taken to
be the true bounds of the said lots or any of them.
5. AND BE IT ENACTED, If any of the commission-
ers shall die, refuse neglect or be rendered incapable to act, the
remaining commissioner or commissioners may appoint some
other person in the place of the person or persons who shall so
die, refuse, neglect or be incapable to act.
6. AND BE IT ENACTED, That each of the said com
missioners shall be allowed two dollars per day, for each and
every day they shall attend as commissioners aforesaid, and
that the surveyor shall be allowed three dollars per day, for
each and every day he shall be employed by the commissioners
for the purpose aforesaid.
7. AND BE IT ENACTED. That all expences incurred
in the execution of this act, shall be paid by the proprietors in
the proportions to the number of lots they may severally own
or possess.
8. AND BE IT ENACTED, That before any commis-
sioner or surveyor shall proceed to the execution of the duties
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dec. Sess.
1815.
Plot to be
returned and
recorded.
Witnesses
may be sum-
moned &c.
Boundary
stones.
Vacancies.
Compensa-
tion.
Expences.
Oath or af-
firmation.
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