The History of the City of Fredericksburg, Virginia — John Shaqi
The History of the City of Fredericksburg, VirginiaQuinn, S. J. (Silvanus Jackson)
History
The History of the City of Fredericksburg, Virginia
Quinn, S. J. (Silvanus Jackson)
Fredericksburg (Va.) -- History
III. PROVIDED _nevertheless_, that the said Directors and Trustees
shall pay, or cause to be paid, unto the said _John Royston_ and
_Robert Buckner_, out of the Money to be raised by the Sale of the
said Lots, as soon as the same shall be by them received, after the
Rate of forty Shillings for every Acre of the said fifty Acres of
Land, according to the Right which the said _John Royston_ and _Robert
Buckner_ now respectively have to the same; and the said _John
Royston_ and _Robert Buckner_ shall also have each of them two Lots,
which shall be assigned to them by the said Directors and Trustees,
and they shall respectively remain seized of such Lots of the same
Estate whereof they were respectively seized in the said Land before
the making of this Act.
IV. AND _be it further enacted, by the Authority aforesaid_, that
after the said Lots shall be so laid out and disposed of, as
aforesaid, the said Directors, or any four of them, shall have full
Power and Authority to apply all the overplus Money which shall be
raised by the Sale of the said Lots to such publick Use; for the
common Benefit of the Inhabitants of the said Town, as to them shall
seem best.
V. AND _be it further enacted, by the Authority aforesaid_, that the
Grantee or Grantees of every such Lot or Lots, so to be conveyed and
sold in the said Town, shall, within two Years next after the Date of
the Conveyance for the same, erect, build, and finish, on each Lot so
conveyed, one House, of Brick, Stone or Wood well framed, of the
Dimensions of Twenty Feet square, and nine Feet Pitch at the least, or
apportionably thereto, if such Grantee shall have two Lots contiguous;
and the said Directors shall have full Power and Authority to
establish such Rules and Orders, for the more regular placing the said
Houses, as to them shall seem fit, from Time to Time. And if the Owner
of any Lots shall fail to pursue and comply with the Directions herein
prescribed, for the building and finishing one or more House or Houses
thereon, then such Lots upon which such Houses shall not be so built
and finished shall be revested in the said Trustees, and shall and may
be sold and conveyed to any other Person or Persons whatsoever, in the
Manner before directed, and shall revest, and be again sold, as often
as the Owner or Owners shall fail to perform, obey, and fulfil, the
Directions aforesaid; and if the Inhabitants of the said Town shall
fail to obey and pursue the Rules and Orders of the said Directors, in
repairing and amending the Streets, Landings, and publick Wharfs, they
shall be liable to the same Penalties as are inflicted for not
repairing the Highways of this Colony.
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