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S a certain Plot of Ground, being Part of a Tract of Land, lying in the Fork of Neufe River, late belonging to the Honourable Col. Thomas Pollock, deceased, but now the Property of Mr. Cullen Pollock, was formerly laid out into a Township, by the Name of Newbern, with proper Allotments for a Church, Court-house, and Market-place; as by a Plot or Draught, upon Record in the Clerk's Office of Craven Precinct Court, will more plainly appear: Therefore, for the Advancement of the laid Town;

II. BE it Enacted, by his Excellency the Palatine, and the rest of the true and absolute Lords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina, by and with the Advice and Consent of the rest of the Members of the General Assembly, now met at Edenton, for the North-East Part of the said Province, and it is hereby Enacted, by the Authority of the same, That the said Land, as it is already laid out by the said Draught, together with as much other Land lying contiguous and most convenient to the said Town, to compleat a Township, as shall make the whole Two Hundred and Fifty Acres, reserving to the Owners thereof the Property of such Lots as are sold already by William Hancock, Attorney of the said Col. Thomas Pollock, is hereby and henceforward invested in Mr. Cullen Pollock, Mr. William Hancock, Jun. and Richard Graves, or any of them, for the Use aforewaid, Declared, Confirmed, and Incorporated into a Township, by the Name of Newbern; with all Privileges which ever have belonged to the said Town, or shall hereafter be expressed, for ever.

III. PURSUANT to which, It is hereby Enacted, by the Authority aforefaid, That the Places already laid out for a Church, Court-house, and Marketplace, be reserved for those Uses; and that the rest of the Land not already laid out, be forthwith laid out into Lots of Half an Acre each, with convenient Streets and Passages, with Fronts belonging to the said Lots, by the said Trustees, or any of them.

IV. AND be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That Mr. Cullen Pollock shall be, and he is hereby appointed the present Treasurer and Receiver of the Monies arising by the Sale of the said Lots; and on his Death or Departure out of the Government, the First in Commission shall succeed, and be Treasurer for the Time being, he giving Security to the Justices of the said Precinct, that he will be accountable for the Money he shall receive by the Sale of the said Lots, unto the said Mr. Cullen Pollock, his Heirs or Assigns.

V. AND be it further Enacted, by the Authority aforesaid, That any Person whatsoever who is willing or desirous to be an Inhabitant of the said Town, shall have Liberty to take up any Lot or Lots so laid out as aforesaid, and not before taken up; which Lot or Lots the Commissioners afore appointed, or any of them, are hereby directed, required, and impowered, to grant, convey, and acknowledge, to the Person so taking up such Lots, and to his Heirs and Assigns, for ever, in Fee-Simple, upon the Payment of Twenty Shillings, Consideration-Money, with a Pepper Corn Yearly, if demanded, as an Acknowledgment to the said Cullen Pollock, his Heirs or Assigns, for ever, for each Lot: Which Twenty Shillings shall be paid to the said Cullen Pollock, the Owner of the said Land, and to his Heirs and Assigns. VI. PRO-