- Title
- Collection of the private acts of the General Assembly of the state of North Carolina: from the year 1715, to the year 1790, inclusive, now in force and use
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- Date
- 1794
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- Creator
- ["North Carolina."]
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- Place
- ["North Carolina, United States"]
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Collection of the private acts of the General Assembly of the state of North Carolina: from the year 1715, to the year 1790, inclusive, now in force and use
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The 3d ofNJov?mbcf , 1 762
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Chap. XI i L An afl,f <r efiabtifiing a town
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the Lnd tf William I terntage, at a piece i oUt d Atkins.*/
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fa, in Dobbfc-
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ty.
X, rxfHERE \S it has been reprefenred to this adl-mblv, ihu the land of Wtllum Her n'. age, lying on the north
W 11J river, at a place called Atkinas banks, in Dobbs county, is a plcaiaiu and healthy fnuation»
•nd commudi. us lor trade and commerce : and the Jaul tf'imam Uerrit ge hav ng acknowledged his free content to
have one hundred acre; of the find land laid oif for a town, and Jar'
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acres !or a town common, which will greatly pro*
mo e the trade of the laid river :
II. Be it therefore enabled, by the Governor , Council, and AJfembly and by the authority of the fame ,
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the dire#-
ers or trultees herein after appointed» ora majority of them, lo
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mi as may be, after the palling this ad, caule
the laid one hundred acres of land to be laid oft* in le ts ol h-If an acre each, with convenient ftreets, lanes, and allies,
referving one acre and a half of the f.tid land whereon the chappel and public warehouse now (lands, lor their relpec-
tivc ules ; which land lo laid off, acenrdmgto the directions oi this ait, is hereby couflituted, eretted, and dUblilhcd
a town, and lhall he called hv the name of King] ion.
III. And be it (urtb
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en,
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d, by the authority afore faid, that from and after the palling this
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Francis A [’drive on,
Bichard CaJ-wett, Simms Bright, jun. John Shine, and David Gordon, be, and they, and every of them, are hereby conftu
tnied directors and truftees, for dcTign'ng, burning, and carrying o,i the (aid town; and they (hall IUnd feized of aa
indefeafible efta-e, in fee, of the (a d one Hundred anJ tilty acres ot land, to and fir the ufes, intents, and purpoJes,
hereby exprefled and declared ; and they, or any three of them, lhall have power and authority to meet, as often a*
they (hall think neceftjry, and caufe a plan thereof to be made ; and therein toinieria mark or number to each lot i
and as foon as the faiii town lhall be laid off as aforefaid, they, and each of them, lhall have power to take lubfcripti-
ors for the faid lots, of luch perlousasare willing to Jubkrbe tor ihem : and when the laid directors have taken lub-
feriptions for fifty lots, or upward ,they lhall appoint a day, and giv e publ c notice to the lubfcribets of the day ap¬
pointed for the drawing of the laid lots which
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ail be done by bailot,in a fate and open manner, by the dinction-, and
jd the pretence of the imjcrity of the fdd d»rectors, at lead; and luch fubferiber lhall be unified to the lor or jot*
which lhall happen to be drawn for Inin, ind correfpond *v»h the matfc
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number contained in the plan of the faid
town ; and the laid directors, ora majority of them, Jl].< I make and execute deeds for granting and conveying the laid
one hundred acre» of land, in half acres, as aforclaid, to the fubUriht rs, rheir heirs and aifigns, Jur ewr,
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der the
rules, re ftriftion sand provifo’::, hereafter mentioned ; and alfo to «very other perfon who lhall purchale any lot or lo
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in the laid town, ac the coft and charges of the gra
to whom the faid lot or lo:s (hal! bf* conveyed ; a;,u every per*
Ion cLiming any lot or lot-, by virtue of any luch conveyame. lhall and may. hold and enjoy the lame, in lce-liniple.
IV. Provided nrverthdefs, that every grantte ot my lot or Id's h) the faid town fo conveyed, (bail, within three
years next afrer the date ol the conveyance for the lame, creel, hudo, a idfi iiJh,on each lot loco iveyed, one well framed
or brick houl’e, fixteen feet fqnare at the lead, and nine fvei pitch in the clear, with a brick or Jltne chininey, or propor¬
tionable to Inch dimerfions, ii luch grantee Iha l have two or more lots contiguous ; and if t^e owner ol any lot or lot*
(hall Jail 10 comply with the directions in this
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piefcrbed for building and finilhinga honle thereon ; Inch lot or lots
upon which a hunfe lhall no: be built and finilhed as aforefaid, Jlii.Il be iree for any othe r perfon or perfous to take up,
in the fame manner, and under the like rules and reflriftions, as other lets are directed to be granted to any oiher per¬
fon or perfonsafier the lubicription lots are drawn for : and in calc
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pvrfon, owner of a fived lot or lots in the laid
town, lhall die without heir, or legally deputing thereof, then, and in ftich cafe, fuch lot or lots fuall revert and come
to the faid William Herritage, hi, horsand alfigus ; anv thing in ibis
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contained to the conrriry no tw ithflnuclhig.
V. And be it further en.ttfed, by the authority aforefaid, that each rtlpeclive lubfcriber w ho (hall lublcribe for any
lot or lo'sin the laid town, lhall. within one
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after it lhall be afeerti ined to whom each of the teiiJ lots doth be¬
long, in manner herein before mentioned, pay and fatisfy to the trcalurer of the laid town, forty five (hillings, proclama¬
tion mpney, icr each lot by him lubl<ribrd for :
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d ii. ca'e of ihe rtJu/al or rcgleO oi ary fubfenttr
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the 'a d fumr
the treafurer lhall and may commence anil proi^cuie a lu'u in his owii name, tor the lame, and therein (hall recover
judgment, with colts offnitraml the faid treatercr ihollasfoon as he receives the faid money pay and iatisly to ihe faid
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his executors, adminiftrators or affigns, the film of ieny (hill ngs, proclamation money, for each
lo:, in fu'l fitisfaftio 1 for the laid land,
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and the o'her five Jhillings lliall be applied towards defraying the cxpcncee
ot laying off and improving the laid to.vn, as a majority of the directors (hall think nccifTary-
VI. And be
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further enacted, by the authority aforefatd, that Francis Alacklnvean be, and is hereby appointed tree-
furer of tne laid town ; who lhall enter into bond with fufficiem fecurity, to the Jufticcs of the interior court of the
laid county of Dobbs, in the penal fmn of three hundred pounds, that he will well and truly account with, a*.d pay tba
monies he lhall receive in virtue of his office to ftwh perfon and perfons as by this
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he is directed : and on the death
or removal ©ui of theounty of the faid treafurer, the remaining diieftors, or any three cf them, by certificate under
their hands and Teals, lhall nominate and appoint one other of the faid directors to be trealurcr of the laid town ; ancj
fo in like manner, from time to time, as often as the faid office (hall become vacant as aforelaid ; and fuch trcalurer otf
l^eafurers fhall enter into bond, with lecurity, in the lame manner as the trer.lurer by this
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appointed.
,vu. Anil rarcuaunuing Uie lacccffion o: die biJ diredors aaiU die liid town Hull lie iucorporaied i be it fur the?
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