13th WILL. III. Nis. 120-122. A. D. 1701. PRIVATE. An Act to enable John Frye, Junior, and George Thomas, No. 120. or either of them, to sell two hundred and forty Acres of Land, situate and lying in the Division of New North Sound, for Payment of the Publick and Parish Taxes, and selling the Surplusage for the Maintenance and Advancement of Samuel Winthrop a Minor. Dated 12th April, 1701. PRIVATE. An Act to enable Alexander Crawford, Guardian of Eli- No. 121. zabeth Rolt, sole Daughter and Heir of James Rolt late of this Island, deceased, to sell one hundred and thirty Acres of Land belonging to the said Elizabeth Rolt, for the Payment of the Debts due thereon, and Support and Maintenance of the said Elizabeth. Dated 11th August, 1701. PRIVATE. An Act to enable Henry Pearne, Esq; to aliene, grant, or No. 122. devise the Plantation commonly called or known by the CONFIRMED. Name of Blubber Valley, situate, lying, and being in the Parish of St. Mary's, in the Division of Bermudian Valley, in this Island, or to charge the same with Portions for younger Children. Dated 12th August, 1701. VOL. I. T A 13th WILL. III. No. 123. A.D. 1701. No. 123. A Supplementary Act to an Act for the better Settlement of this Island with White People, more particularly by His Majesty's Soldiers lately disbanded in this Island, dated the twenty-fourth Day of December, seventeen hundred. For Laws promoting the see Nos. WHEREAS the greatest Part of those Soldiers who have been WHITE PO- encouraged to become Planters in this Island, by having certain PULATION Proportions of Land, some Money, and other Assistance given them, whereby they might become honest and useful Settlers amongst us, have, instead of answering those good Ends, abused the Publick Bounty, and become idle and vagrant Fellows : 127. and 199. inviting the Ingress of Settlers; and Nos. 158. 194. 206. 214.295. couraging the Sercants. II. And whereas it is impossible the Commander in Chief and and 569, en- Treasurer of this Island should have all the Leisure necessary for Importation of inquiring and discovering which of the said Soldiers have begun to make their Settlements, and which of them neglect to manure their Lands, and by that Means render themselves unworthy of what has been already done for them, and what was further intended for their and the Publick Benefit. Governor, &c. empowered to nominate Commission III. We Your Majesty's most loyal and obedient Subjects, his Excellency Christopher Codrington, Esq; Captain General and Commander in Chief, the Council, and Assembly of this Your Majesty's Island of Antigua, humbly pray Your Sacred Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it, and it is hereby enacted by the Authority of the same, That it shall be in the Power of the Governor in Chief, Lieutenant or Deputy Governor, or President, the Council or Assembly ers to inquire of this Island, after the Day of the Date of this Act, no nominate into State of and appoint such and so many Commissioners, as to them shall seem convenient, who are hereby authorized and impowered at all Times hereafter to inquire into their several Divisions what Progress the several Soldiers have made in their respective Settlements so allotted them, and Return thereof to make to the Governor in Chief, Council, and Assembly. newly settled Lands, and make Report. Settlements neglected for six Months be disposed of IV. And be it further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That to reinvest in if any of the said Settlements shall be neglected by the Space of six the King, and Months, such Lands shall reinvest in the King, His Heirs, and Sucaccording to cessors, to be disposed of in such Manner, and to the same Uses, and no otherwise, as is declared in an Act, intituled, An Act for the further Act of 24th Dec. 1700. (No. 118.) 13th WILL. III. Nis. 123-126. A. D. 1701. further promoting the Settlement of this Island, and more particularly one thousand seven hundred; any Thing in this or any other Act to Dated at St. John's, the sixteenth of October, one thousand seven hundred and one, and in the thirteenth Year of the Reign of King WILLIAM, Over England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, &c. CHRISTOPHER CODRINGTON. GEORGE GAMBLE, Speaker. An Act for the further encouraging the Settlement of this No. 124. Island. Dated 5th November, 1701. OBSOLETE. An Act declaring the Oath of a Constable. Dated 5th November, 1701. No. 125. REPEALED. See Oath substituted in Act· of 14th Oct. 1791(No.478.) No. 126. of to AMENDED by An Act for regulating the Towns and Harbours, settling Nov. 1757, Dec. 1792. Street to Street in the several Towns of this Island, and proper (No. 484.) Allotments of Land for Market Places, have hitherto been much wanted, to the great Incommodity of the Inhabitant, as well as transient Persons, which has proved a Discouragement to Trade and Commerce: II. We Your Majesty's most loyal, dutiful, and obedient Subjects, His Excellency Christopher Codrington, Esq; Captain General and Com T 2 mander 1st ANNE. shal, under summon Jury and a sworn No. 126. A. D. 1702. mander in Chief in and over His Majesty's Caribbee Islands, the Council, and Assembly of this Your Majesty's Island of Antigua, humbly therefore pray Your Most Sacred Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it, and it is hereby enacted by the Authority of the Provost Mar- same, That it shall and may be lawful for the Provost Marshal of this Writ from Island, by Writ under the Hand of the Commander in Chief, LieuGovernor, to tenant or Deputy Governor, or President of this Island for the Time of Freeholders being, to the said Marshal or his lawful Deputy directed, to summon, and cause to appear, twelve Freeholders of any of the Towns of this Island, with a sworn Surveyor, who are and shall be hereby fully authorized and impowered to lay out, in the respective Towns in which their Freeholds do lie, so many Streets, Lanes, and Market-Places as they shall find wanting, so as may be most commodious, and as little detrimental to the Inhabitants as may be; which Streets, Lanes, and Market-Places, so laid out by the Oaths of the said Jurors, or which have been heretofore laid out by Virtue of any former Act or Order of the Government, are and shall be hereby confirmed to the said Uses for ever. Surveyor, to lay out in the Towns, the Streets, Lancs and Market Lands laid out by said Jury. to be valued Owner to be paid from Pub lic Treasury Houses standing where III. And it is also enacted and ordained by the aforesaid Authority, That the Provost Marshal, by the Oaths of the said Jurors, shall value and appraise the said Lands so laid out (if belonging to any Persons having legal Grants for the same, and not on said Jury) according to the true Value of each respective Parcel so taken up for the Uses aforesaid; and the Owner or Owners are and shall be hereby intituled to the Value so returned, out of the Publick Treasury of this Island, and the Treasurer for the Time being, is hereby fully authorized and impowered to pay the same without any further Order. IV. And it is hereby further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, Public Build. That if any Timber House or Houses, or any Part of such Buildings or Places ings do stand where any such Streets, Lanes, or Market-Places are pointed, to be already appointed to Publick Uses, in such Case a Passage or Lane removed in shall be allowed to go as near by the said House or Houses as may be, three Years; and the Owner or Owners shall be hereby obliged, in three Years have been ap If Lands taken Buildings to from the Date hereof, to remove so much of the said House or Houses as stand thereon. V. But if any Land should be hereafter taken up for the aforesaid Uses, in which any Buildings shall stand, a Passage shall be allowed, as aforesaid, and the Owner or Proprietors thereof, shall be be removed in obliged in three Years from the Time of the Lands so taken up, to remove the same, or it shall be lawful for any of the said Surveyors of the Town, where such Building shall stand, to pull the same down, together three Years. 1st ANNE... No. 126. A. D. 1702. together with such other Buildings now standing on any Ground allotted to the Uses aforesaid, if not removed in the limited Time of three Years from the Date hereof. VI. Provided always, That a Jury be first called, after the said Limitations be expired, to value the same, together with the Land so taken, on which the said Buildings or any Part thereof shall be erected; and that the Owner or Proprietors thereof be also paid for the same out of the Publick Treasury of this Island, pursuant to the Directions of this Act, and not otherwise; any Law, Custom, or Usage to the contrary notwithstanding. Existing Enon Streets to croachments be removed in one Year. Future En croachments, or thatched Buildings, in a Notice; or be Pithout Compensation. pulled down VII. And it is further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all Persons who have already encroached on any the known Streets or Lanes of the several Towns within this Island, building in Part or the Whole thereon, shall remove said Buildings in one Year from the Date of this Act; and that all Persons who shall hereafter encroach on said Streets, &c. as aforesaid, or shall erect thatched Buildings in any Part of the Towns of this Island, and do not remove the same week after in one Week after Notice given, it shall be in the Power of said Surveyors, or any one of them respectively, forthwith to direct the pulling them down, without any Satisfaction or Reparation made or to be made for the same. VIII. And it is further enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the Surveyor shall draw a Platt of the Towns of this Island, as they shall be, from Time to Time, laid out by the said Jurors, and the same record, or cause to be recorded, in the Register's Office of this Island, for all Persons to have recourse to as Occasion shall require; and that the Provost Marshal and Surveyor aforesaid, shall receive reasonable Satisfaction for their doing what is hereby required, out of the Publick Treasury of this Island. IX. And be it also enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That all Persons now holding Proportions of Land in any of the said Towns, or who shall have hereafter Grants for the same, shall be obliged to build a framed and shingled House of thirty Foot in Length, and fifteen Foot in Breadth, or a Stone or Brick House at least of the same Dimensions, in the Time limited by the said Grant, or else shall absolutely forfeit all manner of Title to such unbuilt Proportions, to such Person or Person, who, on a new Grant given, shall build the same, and who shall be the true and lawful Owners thereof for ever. Surveyors to Towns, laid out by Jury, them. draw Platts of and register Grantees of Land to build Clause, or for X. And if any Grant has been heretofore given for Town Lands, Previous without a certain Limitation for building therein set down, it shall be deemed, Grants without limited Time, |