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 the Wise plantation in Lower Norfolk, the Read plantation in York, the Brick House in New Kent, Tyndall&#8217;s Point in Gloucester, the Wormeley plantation in Middlesex, Hobb&#8217;s Hole in Rappahannock, Peace Point in Stafford, Calvert&#8217;s Neck in Accomac, the Secretary&#8217;s plantation on Kings Creek in Northampton, Corotoman in Lancaster, and Chickacony in Northumberland.

As an inducement to build on these sites, a lot, half an acre in extent, was granted in fee simple to any one on condition of erecting a residence and store on it, this conveyance to be subject to the additional condition that the beneficiary should pay one hundred pounds to the county. The failure in the course of three months to build operated as a forfeiture of the lot. If half an acre appeared insufficient for his purpose to any settler who wished to establish himself in any one of these towns, he might secure an acre on condition that he should erect on it two residences and two warehouses, and should pay to the county an additional one hundred pounds of tobacco. The tobacco was forfeited if in the course of three months he neglected to erect the houses agreed upon. The surveyors who determined the boundaries were to receive, on the delivery of the plats, twenty pounds of tobacco for every half-acre laid off. If a surveyor refused when requested to make a survey of a lot, he subjected himself to the forfeiture of five hundred pounds of the same commodity to the person seeking his services. All the products of native growth and manufacture were to be brought to these towns, there to be sold, and then to be carried on board for exportation abroad. The penalty imposed for a failure to comply with this order was the forfeiture of the articles. All forms of merchandise, all English servants and negro slaves imported into the Colony, were to be landed and to be disposed of only in these