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<j5 L A W S of N OR T n~C ARO L in A.
^,Z). 1715. CHAP. XLIX.
fthcrw.kp'ovid- ^« ^cty Concerning Orphans.
td for by the Or-phan
Ail, pafTcd
chlp"'s-
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50- ^" ^^'' ^^ encourage the dejlroying of Vermim^ E X P.
51. ^« y^f^ to ascertain "what Perfcns are Tithabks ; and to direct th^
/p^n t, ^^43> Method to be cbferved in the taking the Lifts of tkem.
Chap, a,
Pieamble,
CHAP. LIL
An Acl^ for appointing a 1!own in the County of Bath, and for fecuring the 'Public Li-brary
belonging to St. Thomas'j Parifj, in Famplico.
I. ^ -jl
T H E R E A S, at the Requeft of Mr. John Laivfon^ Mr. Joel Martin, and
YY others, a certain Tra6t or Parcel of Land, purchafed by them, lying on
the Old-Town-Creek, in Pamplico, 2nd containing, by Eftimation, Sixty Acres, be
the fame niore or lefs, being Part of a larger Trad then belonging to Lavid Per-kins,
but now in the Poflefllon, and of Right belonging, to Col. Ihomas Cary, and
divided from thence by a Line of marked Trees from the Old-Town-Creek, to
Mr. Barrow's Line, now alfo the Right and PoflefTion of the faid Gary, was incor-porated
and made a Townlliip, by an A61 of the General AlTcnibly, made and ra-tified,
at the Houfe of Captain John Hecklefield, the Eighth Day of March, Anna
Domini One Thoufand Seven Hundred and Five, with divers Privileges and Immu-munities
therein, and thereby invefted in the faid John Laufcn, Joel Martin, and
Nicholas Daw, to and for the Ufes therein mentioned : To promote therefore the
Settlement of the faii Tovm, and for fecuring the Public Library of St. Thoin^s's,
Parifh, in Pamplico, .a _,.
II. BE it Enacted by his Excellency the Palatine, and the Refl of the true and
abfohite Lord Proprietors of the Province of Carolina, hy and with the Advice and
Confent of the Refl of the Members of the General Affembly, now met at Little River,
for the North Eaft Part of the faid Province, and it is hereby Enacted by the Authority
Linds invefted in
^j fhe Jame, That the faid Land be, and it is hereby henceforward invelled in Mr.
wT'Namrof John Porter, Mr. Joel Martin, Mr. Thomas Harding, and C&r^i. Join Lrinhvater,
Ltb-iovin. ^^ any Two of them, to and for the Ufes afortfUd, and Declared, Confirmed,
and Incorporated into a Townfliip, by the Name of Bath-Town ; with all Pri-vileo-
es and Immunities hereafter exprefi'ed, for ever.
Ground fet .part Hi. PURSUANT to v/hich, It is hereby Enabled, That convenient Places
To^n^HJuf;. and Proportions of Land be laid out and preferved, for a Church, a Town-Houle,
and Marker g^d a Markct-Placc -, and that the reft of the Land which is not already kid cut,
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be forthwith laid out into Lots, of half an Acre each, with convenient Streets and
PafTages, by the faid Truftees, or any Two of them.
An perfon ma IV. AND be it furthcr Enactcd, by the Authority aforcfaid. That every Perfon
take up'tTts!"^'' whatfoever, who is defirous to be an Inhabitant of the laid Town, fhall have Liber-ty
to take up any Lot or Lots fo laid out as aforclaid, and noj before taken up ;
which Lot or Lots the Commiffioners aforefaid, or any Two of them, are hereby
direfted, required, and impowered, to grant, convey, and acknowledge, to the
Perfons fo taking up the fame, and to his Heirs and Affigns, for ever, in Fee-Sim-ple,
upon Payment of Thirty Shillings, Confideration-Money, for each Lot ; out
of which Money the firil Purchafers Ihall b- re-imburled the firft Purchafe, with
their reafonable Charges and Dilburfements, and tiie Overplus fhail be appropriated
to the Ufe of the Church, to be difpofed of as by the Vcilry oi the Precuicl: of
Beaufort, Ihall, from Time to Time, be directed and appoin'.-cd.
V. P P. 0.
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