n3nt to cr coins within trie purview cf this act be, rod the fame is hereby repealed ami made void to all in ten's aid"
purpoies as it the fame had never bce.i nude : ProviJed, this academy IhiU noc be deemed to be one of thole fe.
mmanesot learning directed by t.ie conlt:riitio:i of ihiaitite to be eftabliihed and fupparted by public authority.
Chap XLlil, An ad for eftalUfhhtg a tow,', in Jones county on the lands of Ti o.nas Webber and others.
I« \\7" nKflEAS it is represented in ihc Ueneiat Ailemb'v tnat a town on the lands or Thomas li ebb: r, Lewis Df-f-an,
ffenrp Smith aad Sarnucl Hilt, on the fouth tide of Trent river in Jones county, where the court houfc
1io-v Hands, would tend io the promotion of commerce, and t
s.e inhabitants of laid county be greatly henefLed thereby,
II. Beit therefore enacted, by the General AffemSly of the State of North-Carolina, andit Is hereby emfied, by the ait-ty
ofthe fame, that the directors of trulttes hereafter appointed or a majority ot them, fliall asloonas may bealter the
pafii 13 tf ti-is ad', agree With or purchafc from the faid Thomas Webber, Lewis Bryav, U:nry Smith and 5 mud Hi!!,
one huiulied acres o; lard for tie purpoies aforefaid ; and after having fo agreed f.r the faid land, (hall as foen as
nny be lay oft" forty acres in half acre lots in half i-cre lots exclufive of i'rect-, with convenient ltreets, lanes am! al-lies,
and. fix ty acres for town commons, which lots fo laid oft' according to the direftiens of this act are hereby cor.ftia-t-ted
and creeled a town, aod Ih:dl be called by the name of THrenfcn.
III. Ail he it further en.itieJ, by th.-a-.tth-) itfrafotefaid, that rrom add alter thepaffing of this aft Jitter Nafli, Frir-deritk
Hargttt, Lewis Bryan, John Bryanj Willi tm Randal, John TflerznA EdiOardWhitiy, be, and they and every of
t heal are hereby conftituted direcrorsand (rultces for the pmxhafiug aid agreeing for ore hundred acres cf land as .».
focefald an Ifor thefide ignjiig" naild'nig and carrying on tiie laid town ; and they Ihall If. n 1 i'ei/.ed of an indefeafib. a
eitate in fee fimple of the laid one hundred acres or'iand, to and for the uies, intent and purpofes hereby expreii'ed
and declared ; and th-y or a majority of 'hem ihall have full power and authority to nicer as often as they lha'l think lie-ceflitryt
and caute a plan thereof to be made, and therein to alttft a mark < r number to each lor ; and when the laid
town Iha'lhe la'id bffas aforefilcl, t.iev and each ofthem lha'l have power to take fubfcripMons fcr the faid lot; of fuel*
pei fon&as are willing, to iu-fcribe lor them ; and when the laid directors have taken lublcriptions for fifty lots or up-wards;
they Ihall appoint a day and give pub ic notice to the f&bfcribers of the day and place appointed for the draw,
jag the faid lots, which«fhall be done by ballot in a fair and open rnanrier, by the direction and in the prefence of tie
majority of the 'aid direct >rs' at fetid • and ftrch l'ublcribe-s (had be entitled to the lot or lots wivch Ihall be drawn for
him, and correfpond with the mark or number contained in the plaioffiid town ; and the laid kre&orso.- a majority
of them (hail m&ke and execute deeds fo granting.! id conveying the fa'd forty acres of land in half acres as aforefakl
to the ia;-,;;r,bers, their heirs and affigns forever ; and affotoevery other perion who fhail parchafe any other lor or
lots i 1 tiv laid sdtfri ; a id every perfe-n claim ng any lot or lot, by virtue rSr any fjch convey ince Iliad and may hold
an 1 enj t,< the i 1 ae i i fee limple ; Pi ov del 'leverthelefs, that every grantee Or any lot or lots in the fiid town lb con.
vt ;cii, Iln'l .vitfiin three ye.m next atrer Inch conveyance for the lame erect, build and iimlhon each lot lb convey-
" ' • » s ! t;fra ned or hrck Fioiiie, fi iteen feet f pure at leaft, and ten feet pitch in the clear, or proportiorable to
In. h d, ne ifiori?, if Ituh grantee Ihdi have two or more lots co.uig ions ; and if the owner of any lot or lots Hull fail
t p co nply vit'i the ctireft o isia this a.l pref.ri >ed for b a Id ai and fi ddn.ig a hoaf : thereo.i, then fuch lot cr lots u:i.
r. 1 -v'-neh Ibcli hoafe ihdl i.ot be btl.lt a. ul i'uiiiie«i as afo.vfaid, ill til be rj'veiled in the laid dhecVr', and the k.'i f
d reclars or 1 hi ij >ri:y of them may, an I they are here ->/ impower'cd and authorized to fell :uch ot or lots for the belt:
price tint can be had to a iv perfbi applying for the lane, a.i 1 grant and convey Inch loc or lets to Inch perfbns un-der
the fke rules regnhro is a.id <eftrl4liotis as the fane was or were for-n.rly granted, and the money ar ilin-r from
fuch (ale be applied by t:ie f.ii I directors or a in ijority of them for the beneh't and improvement of fad towr.
I v .
-:' ,! Sell further ena&efl, by the authority cfo'-eJUiJ, that each relpccliVe fubl'criber who Ihall fubferibe for a-ny
lot or lots in the f lid tovn, ihall within one mont.'i after it Ihdi be afcert lined to whom each of tie fiiil lots doth
belong in manner herein before-meir ioned, pay and faiisiy to the .faid direciors or one of them the fum cf three
pound-, for each lot by him fubferibed for : and ia cafe.ojf negle.l or refuial of any iubferiber to pay the laid fum
die 1 lid direciors ihall and may commence jnJ prolecute a fait io,- the fame, and t.jerei.i Ihall recover jud nnent witli
colt- of fnir.
V. And for cootimiing the fucceilion of the dire-clcrs until the faidtow.ii Ihall be incorporated, be >i further entiled by
the anthority dforefaul, that in cafe ol the deitli^refufal to acf, or removal out of the qoanty of any ot tne laid d rectors
the furvivine directors of a majority of them lb. ill alTem'ele, ana are hereiiy impo.veieJ Iron) tme to time by intfrn-inent
of writing under their reipective hmdi and feals to nominate fowl uttier perfqn, being a freehaider ot the laid
town, in ihe place of him lb dying, refilling to act, cr removing out of t'.e coumy which director io nominated aid
appointed (hall from thenceforth have the like power and authority in all ihmgsin tne matters herei . contained as it"
lie had been exprtflly named and appointed in, ami by .this act.
C:ia;\ XLI7. Anartt-i ejlablth a town 01 the Ian\ of'John Walker at a place called^Deep V/aici I'jint, joining
Fort Johnltoji o-i the liver Cape-I-'ear, in ii'-iinl .v ( |; cou> ty.
\. \ T7HEHF.AS it has been reprefented to this AilemiMi that the land of Joint Walker lying on the river Cfifc F~c r,
\ V at a place called Deep Waier-V'ml in Bntnfmch. county, is a pleafant End heaktiy fnu.t.on, ; r.d conwUdlWu*
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