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ing the court rioufe there n mentioned, to the great detriment and inconvenience of the inhabitants trtrreof :
II. Be it therefore enailed, end it is hereby er.acled, by the Governor, Council, and sjlmbly, and by the authority of
thefame, that a court- houie for the laid county, r.ot exceeding fixty feet long, and torty feet wide in the clear, be
buiit on the public lots in the town of Neivbtrn, nearly oppclite Mr. hire's red houfe, or in the interjection of Erocd-
Jlreet, where a court- houfe is already begun, whichlbever of the faid places they, the commiliicners herein after ap-pointed
fqr carrying on the laid budding, or the majority of them, fhall judge molt convenient.
III. A id be it further enadled, by the authority aforefaid, that a poll tax of two (hilling?, proclamation mjney, be,
and is hereby laid on eacn taxable perfou within the faid county of Craven, yearly, for three years, from and after
the palling of this act ; to be levied and collected by the fberift'of the faid county, in like manner, and at the fame
time, as pnb'ic taxes are collected ; which lhall by him be accounted for, and paid into the hands of the honourable
R/chaid Speight. Efq ; JfephLeech, and John Fonville, Efqrs. commiflioners, hereby appointed for building and fi-niih.
ng ilie laid couri-houie, or to the majority of them, or their orders, who are to build the fame at their dilcreti-t)
u ; the tint collection of the faid tax to be made, accounted for, and paid by the faitl fheriff unto the faid commiffi-oners,
ox their orders, on. or before the tenth day of April, 1762, and fo, annually, till the faid three years are ex-pired.
IV. And for the better enabling the faid commiiTioners to carry en and finifli the faid court houfe as foon as may be,
It it hereby enaSei, by the authority< aforefaid, that they the faid commiiTioners, or the majority of them, fliall be, and
they are hereby inveited with full power and authority, to lell and difpofe of the lot belonging to the faid county,
v. hereon the old court- houie and prifon formerly flood, at public vendue, at any time hereafter, on giving public no-tice
thereof, at leaft twenty days before the falc ; and after fuch file to convey and make over the fame in tee-fimple,
to the perlon or paribus lo buying and paying for the fame, and to their heirs, executors, administrators, and affigns,
byfucb.inltrum.eiu or inurumems in writing as fhall be fufficient and available in law. The reft Obfokte.
Chap. XV. An ad to dock the entail of certain lards therein mentioned, veftlng the fee-fimple thereof in Blake Baker,
andfor fettling other lands in lieu thereof to the fame ufes.
I. VT 7HEREAS Colonel Barr.aby M'Kinney, late of this province, deceafed, being in his lifetime, feized in his de-
VV meine, as of fee, of, and into, certain traits of land, lying and being in Halifax county (formerly Edgcomb)
and being fo feized, the (aid Barnaby M'Kinney did, by his lalt will and teftair.enr, in writing, bearing date the thir-teenth
day of Aigutt, in the year of our lord one thonland feven hundred and thirty-feven, devife to his ion R'chard
M'Kinney, in fee tail (together with other lands) that trad of land whereon the laid Barnaby M'Kinney then lived ;
bounded as followeth : beginning at the upper end of the cyprefs gut on Mcra'tock river, at a plate called the old
mill dam ; thence by the windings of the laid gut to the great ditch ; thence along the faid ditch to the corner there-of
at the road ; and thence by the courles of the cyprefs gut to where William Brown's head 1 ne erodes the fame ; then
by J}rov)n% head line to his corner near the head of the Merry branch ; then by Brown's lower line to a maple on Mo.
ratfock river : as alio, t >. o hundred acres or land, purchiled of colonel Will\am Maule, adjoining William Brown's lower
line ; and all the r mainder of the laid Barnaby M'Kinney's lands on the fouth fide of Morattock river, not before de«
vifed ; and if his laid fon Richard ihould die, without heir, or lawful iiTue, then the plantation w hereon the fa.d Bar.
naby M'Kinney then liysd, with three hundred acres of land adjoining, fliould delcend to his fon J'.hn M'Kinney, in
fee-tail ; and ill other the lands before deviled to the faid Richard M'Kinney, Ihould go to tne two daughters of the
faid Barnaby M'Kmney, to ivit ; Patience Lane, and Mourning Pope, and the heirs of their two bodies, lawfully begotten,
ai.d to their heirs for ever, equ:l!y to be divided between them, and foon after died ; and the fjid Richard M'Kinneyt
after the death of the faid tefiator, in confequence of the laid devile, became feized and poflefled of the lands afore-,
faid, and fo died feized thereof without lawful ifl'ue ; by means whereof, John Lane, and Henry Pope, the lawful heirs
of Patience Lane, and Mourning Pope, became leized as heirs at law to the faid Patience and Mourning of the lands in
the afore faid. devife mentioned ; except the plantation, and three hundred acres of land limited as aforefaid to the
laid John M'Kinney. And the i'aidjahn Lane, ueir at law to the laid Patience Lane, who, by the will of the faid telta-tor,
in default of lawful ifiue of the laid Richard M'Kinney, was imitled to one halt of the faid lands (o limited to the
faid Patience and Mourning, entered, and was feized, 3nd poffelled thereof ; and apprehending he had a fee-fimple ef-tate
therein, agreed to fell t lehnne to col. Joj'eph Lane, for the confederation of four hundred pounds, and executed a
leai'e and releale to the laid col. Jj'eph Lane, tor his part or fhare of the lands fo limited to the laid Patience and Mour.
tiing ; and the laid Jofiph Lane apni eliencfny; that he had (after the conveyance by the laid John Lane exe :uted) art
ablolute eltate, in fee-limple, to the faid lands fu conveyed by the faid John Lane, agreed to fell the fame to Blake Ba.
her, for the conlideratiun t>{ live hundred pounds, and executed deeds of conveyance for the fame to the faid Blake Bam
ke-. Pnd alio whereas the laid "Join Lanais leized, in fee fimple, of, and into, one certain tract or parcel of land,
containing, by eilimation, lis hundred and eighty three acres, lying and being in the parifh of Edgecomb, in the county
oi'.Halifax, lately purchaled by him of J-tlcvh Lane by deed of feoffment ; and alfo, whereas it will be greatly to the
advantage of the eldett fon of the laid Join Lane, to dock the entaii of ihe faid lands fo limited to the faid Pa-
\ience his mother, whereby the faid John may be enabled to provide for his younger chilarcn, and to fettle the
ttner parcel of land purchased ol' Jofepb Lane as alcrelaid, w hereof he is lei/cd in fee fin. pie, to the Came ufes: and
pralinuch as notice has been cubljlhed tlnee Sundays iuccefiively in the ievtral churches and chapels in the faid pariii
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| Full Text | 39 ing the court rioufe there n mentioned, to the great detriment and inconvenience of the inhabitants trtrreof : II. Be it therefore enailed, end it is hereby er.acled, by the Governor, Council, and sjlmbly, and by the authority of thefame, that a court- houie for the laid county, r.ot exceeding fixty feet long, and torty feet wide in the clear, be buiit on the public lots in the town of Neivbtrn, nearly oppclite Mr. hire's red houfe, or in the interjection of Erocd- Jlreet, where a court- houfe is already begun, whichlbever of the faid places they, the commiliicners herein after ap-pointed fqr carrying on the laid budding, or the majority of them, fhall judge molt convenient. III. A id be it further enadled, by the authority aforefaid, that a poll tax of two (hilling?, proclamation mjney, be, and is hereby laid on eacn taxable perfou within the faid county of Craven, yearly, for three years, from and after the palling of this act ; to be levied and collected by the fberift'of the faid county, in like manner, and at the fame time, as pnb'ic taxes are collected ; which lhall by him be accounted for, and paid into the hands of the honourable R/chaid Speight. Efq ; JfephLeech, and John Fonville, Efqrs. commiflioners, hereby appointed for building and fi-niih. ng ilie laid couri-houie, or to the majority of them, or their orders, who are to build the fame at their dilcreti-t) u ; the tint collection of the faid tax to be made, accounted for, and paid by the faitl fheriff unto the faid commiffi-oners, ox their orders, on. or before the tenth day of April, 1762, and fo, annually, till the faid three years are ex-pired. IV. And for the better enabling the faid commiiTioners to carry en and finifli the faid court houfe as foon as may be, It it hereby enaSei, by the authority< aforefaid, that they the faid commiiTioners, or the majority of them, fliall be, and they are hereby inveited with full power and authority, to lell and difpofe of the lot belonging to the faid county, v. hereon the old court- houie and prifon formerly flood, at public vendue, at any time hereafter, on giving public no-tice thereof, at leaft twenty days before the falc ; and after fuch file to convey and make over the fame in tee-fimple, to the perlon or paribus lo buying and paying for the fame, and to their heirs, executors, administrators, and affigns, byfucb.inltrum.eiu or inurumems in writing as fhall be fufficient and available in law. The reft Obfokte. Chap. XV. An ad to dock the entail of certain lards therein mentioned, veftlng the fee-fimple thereof in Blake Baker, andfor fettling other lands in lieu thereof to the fame ufes. I. VT 7HEREAS Colonel Barr.aby M'Kinney, late of this province, deceafed, being in his lifetime, feized in his de- VV meine, as of fee, of, and into, certain traits of land, lying and being in Halifax county (formerly Edgcomb) and being fo feized, the (aid Barnaby M'Kinney did, by his lalt will and teftair.enr, in writing, bearing date the thir-teenth day of Aigutt, in the year of our lord one thonland feven hundred and thirty-feven, devife to his ion R'chard M'Kinney, in fee tail (together with other lands) that trad of land whereon the laid Barnaby M'Kinney then lived ; bounded as followeth : beginning at the upper end of the cyprefs gut on Mcra'tock river, at a plate called the old mill dam ; thence by the windings of the laid gut to the great ditch ; thence along the faid ditch to the corner there-of at the road ; and thence by the courles of the cyprefs gut to where William Brown's head 1 ne erodes the fame ; then by J}rov)n% head line to his corner near the head of the Merry branch ; then by Brown's lower line to a maple on Mo. ratfock river : as alio, t >. o hundred acres or land, purchiled of colonel Will\am Maule, adjoining William Brown's lower line ; and all the r mainder of the laid Barnaby M'Kinney's lands on the fouth fide of Morattock river, not before de« vifed ; and if his laid fon Richard ihould die, without heir, or lawful iiTue, then the plantation w hereon the fa.d Bar. naby M'Kinney then liysd, with three hundred acres of land adjoining, fliould delcend to his fon J'.hn M'Kinney, in fee-tail ; and ill other the lands before deviled to the faid Richard M'Kinney, Ihould go to tne two daughters of the faid Barnaby M'Kmney, to ivit ; Patience Lane, and Mourning Pope, and the heirs of their two bodies, lawfully begotten, ai.d to their heirs for ever, equ:l!y to be divided between them, and foon after died ; and the fjid Richard M'Kinneyt after the death of the faid tefiator, in confequence of the laid devile, became feized and poflefled of the lands afore-, faid, and fo died feized thereof without lawful ifl'ue ; by means whereof, John Lane, and Henry Pope, the lawful heirs of Patience Lane, and Mourning Pope, became leized as heirs at law to the faid Patience and Mourning of the lands in the afore faid. devife mentioned ; except the plantation, and three hundred acres of land limited as aforefaid to the laid John M'Kinney. And the i'aidjahn Lane, ueir at law to the laid Patience Lane, who, by the will of the faid telta-tor, in default of lawful ifiue of the laid Richard M'Kinney, was imitled to one halt of the faid lands (o limited to the faid Patience and Mourning, entered, and was feized, 3nd poffelled thereof ; and apprehending he had a fee-fimple ef-tate therein, agreed to fell t lehnne to col. Joj'eph Lane, for the confederation of four hundred pounds, and executed a leai'e and releale to the laid col. Jj'eph Lane, tor his part or fhare of the lands fo limited to the laid Patience and Mour. tiing ; and the laid Jofiph Lane apni eliencfny; that he had (after the conveyance by the laid John Lane exe :uted) art ablolute eltate, in fee-limple, to the faid lands fu conveyed by the faid John Lane, agreed to fell the fame to Blake Ba. her, for the conlideratiun t>{ live hundred pounds, and executed deeds of conveyance for the fame to the faid Blake Bam ke-. Pnd alio whereas the laid "Join Lanais leized, in fee fimple, of, and into, one certain tract or parcel of land, containing, by eilimation, lis hundred and eighty three acres, lying and being in the parifh of Edgecomb, in the county oi'.Halifax, lately purchaled by him of J-tlcvh Lane by deed of feoffment ; and alfo, whereas it will be greatly to the advantage of the eldett fon of the laid Join Lane, to dock the entaii of ihe faid lands fo limited to the faid Pa- \ience his mother, whereby the faid John may be enabled to provide for his younger chilarcn, and to fettle the ttner parcel of land purchased ol' Jofepb Lane as alcrelaid, w hereof he is lei/cd in fee fin. pie, to the Came ufes: and pralinuch as notice has been cubljlhed tlnee Sundays iuccefiively in the ievtral churches and chapels in the faid pariii |
