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At a GENE.RAL ASSEMBILY, begun and held at RALEIGH, Ol the SC-
,venteenth Day of November, in the Year of our Lord One Thousand a 0 .
]_ight Hundred, ipid in the twenty-fifth year of the Independence of the
.paid 9tate.,
,4a a 0 more fully tofecure to this State li due and proper Weight in the Ee09ion of a Prefi dent and Vice- Pre- CYuAP. 1.
fident of the United Stater. REPEALED, 1601), 5.
Ati as to authorfe and empower ,Chrifian Jennett, the guardian and next friend of Wf'dlian Yennett, Mary CHAP. 2.
Jennett, Jabez 7ennett, a:d Apq/a 7ennett, of the County of Curriuc'k, infants under the age o/ twenty-
one yearr, tofe and convey to the. United States of America,jbur acres of land at the Head Land of Cape
Hatteras, part o1 the EjIate in connon of them the faid Willian, .Aary, Jabcz and Aquilla, and to ofl ia
the United States an ablfole and indefeafile ejiate infiejnple therein.
HIAEREA$ the General Affembly of this State, by an at palTed in their feflion at Newbern, in Ju- Antc.p. 2,
ly, one thoufand fevon hundred and ninety-four, entitled a An aa to cede to the United States
of Americka certain lands upon the conditions thereini mentioned, xeciting among other thingq, .that
whereas the congress of the United States have paired an aa so ere& a light-houfe on the 11ead Land of
Cape Hatteras, and that whereas it is expedient that the United States fould have the exclufive jurifilic-
tion (together.with other 'places therein mnwtioned) of a fulflicient quantity of-land, on which faid light.
houfe fhall be ereced, did ena&,.under the conditions and.reftri& ions therein expreffed, that the ex-
clulivejurifdlaion, among other places therein mentioned, of four acres of-land at the Head Land of Cape
.J-latteris,flhall be ceded and fRand velled in the United States, as foon as the proprietors of the fiid lands
ihall convey the famc to the United States; and in their.feffion at:Raleigh, in November, one thoufand
feven hundred and ninety-feven, under the conditions therein expreffed, did revive and continue in force
fo much of the before recited aa as cedes, among other places, four acres of land at the 11ead Land of
Cape Hatteras.
And whereas it is reprefented to this General Affembly, that the four acres of land at the Head Land
of Cape Hatteras affording the moft eligible fcite for a lightdioufe, are in the feifin and poffeflion, as te-
ipants in common in fee, of William Jennett, Mary Jenpett, Jabez Jennett, and Aquilla Jennett, all of the
county of Currituck, infants under the age of twenty-one years, to.whom Chriftian Jcnnett, their mother,
liath been duly appointed guardian; thatthe United States are willing to.purchafe the faid four acres of
land, and have otfered for the fine a fair and full price, to wit, at the rite of twelve and an half dollars
per acre, amounting to fifty dollars ; and that the faid William, Mary, Jabez and Aquilla, who though
Iot of full age, have fufliciept judgment and difcretion to eftimate the value of this part of their property,
are defirous, of their own free will and accord, and are further advifed by their mother and guardian a-
forefaid, and others their relations and friends, to accept the liberal offer of the United States, and for that
purpofe have actually laid off by metesand bounds the four acres of land fele6ted by their agent.
And whereas alfo it is highly important to the commercial interefts of the United States of America,
that a light-houfe thould be creaed on the moft eligible fkite at the fiid Head Land of Cape Hatteras as
[peedily as poffible.
I. Be it enacted by the General Afembly of the fate of North-Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the autho- .certanpersons
riy ofthefnne, That the faid William Jennett, Mary Jennett, Jabez Jennett, and Aquilla Jennett, be and empowered to
they are hereby autlorifed, and fully empowered to fell and- convey to the United States of America, four self.
acres of land, fituate, lying and being at or near the Head Land of Cape Hatteras, in the county of Cur- situadon.
rituck, beginning at a cedar poil at John Wallace and John Gray Blount's line, running thence Eaft twelve
poles and four fifths of a pole to a cedar poft at the corner of Wallace and Blount's line, thence North,
binding on faid line, fifty poles, to a cedar pot at the corner of Wallace and .l3ount's and Thomas Far.
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