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An Act vesting a tract of land in trustees for the purpose of promoting manufactories. 1799 23 (1799)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0031 and id is 1 raw text is: CHAP. VII.
.An act veftin a trad of land in trutfees for the
purpoje qj promoting nianuJactories.
Approvcd Dcember 19, 1799.
§ i. BE it enacted by the General Affernbly, six ,tau
T'hat the following three perfots, Samuel and &,.o
granted  to
Hopkins, Harry Toulmnin, & David Walker, hOur, n,
be, and they are hereby conidituted, a body hat
corporate and politic, for the purpof's here-
in after mentioned : they fhall have full
power and authority to locate at any time
within ten months from the paflage of this
2t6, any quantity of vacant or unappropri-
ated land, fouth of Green river, not exceed-
ing fix thoufand acres, in trnais of not lefs
than two hundred acres each, and laying ag
nearly in a fquare as the interfering of pri-
or claims will admit of; which they thall
catufe to be furveyed, and plats and certifi-
cates of fuch furveys to be returned within
one year of thetime fuch locations are made,
to the regifler's office: Provided however, Not o-i-
l ude  Uly
that no fuch location flhall include any bank bank of oe,
of ore, falt lick or falt fpring, or any lands licks,  r
fet apart for any Indian tribe, or any tra6t (ring.
of two hundred acres on which any fettler
may have an improvement, and fhall refide
at the time fuch location is made: and pro-
a.ded, moreover, that if any furvey hllould
by mifiake interfere with any prior claim,
twelve months fhall be allowed to remove
luch furvey into any vacant land as afore-
faid.              D

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