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Whenever nine lots are laid out, a tenth of equal fize, fhall be laid out closely adjoining to them, which shall be numbered and registered as the property of the conductor; or for a referve to pay publick debts (the first conductor to whom the promise of every tenth lot was made, having lately died, the committee are at liberty to dispose of this referved land, as they shall think most just and right) and an account fhall be kept of whatever odd number of lots are laid out at the fame time, more than the ten last appropriated, and less than the amount of another nine; that as other new lots are demanded, the conductor may have a tenth lot of equal fize close adjoining to any of the last appropriated lots which he fhall chufe: but, for every ten lots thus marked out for private property, two lo of equal fize, shall be alfo marked out adjoining to them, for publick uses, to be registered G 2

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as fuch, which under the care of an elected committee, in every district, controlled by the common council of the state, shall be cultivated by publick labour (hereafter more fully explained) and the produce be appropriated to a publick fund for religious inftruction, fchools, poor, hofpitals, falaries for publick officers, and all fuch juft and reafonable expences befides as ought to be defrayed by a publick exchequer. And alfo to every hundred lots laid out for PRIVATE property ten additional publick lots* fhall be laid out clofely adjoining: viz. One lot for a general afylum for poor males, under the care and direction of the oldest and moft prudent deciners in the bundred, elected as a committe, expressly for that truft.

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* N. B. The publick lots are not to be reckoned with those that are tithed in favour of the conductor, but only the lots which are laid out for priwate property.

Secondly, One lot for a general afylum of poor females, under the care of the elderly widows, or of fuch other prudent matrons as fhall be elected to the charge.

Thirdly, One lot for a general afylum of poor families, of both fexes together, that the branches of a family may not be feparated through misfortunes or poverty; but that each family may be allowed a diftinct and separate habitation to themfelves at the publick expence, until they can be otherwise provided, and more comfortably established, under the care and patronage of the committee of elder deciners above mentioned. Spare chambers fhall alfo be prepared to accommodate ftrangers and travellers, as at an inn, but feparately in the faid three lots, according to their refpective defcriptions of male, female, or family.

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Fourthly, One lot for the fupport of an bofpital for the fick and hurt, divided into feparate wards, for males and females, fubject refpectively to the vifitation and direction of the two feparate trufts abovementioned.

And Fifthly One penitentiary lot to be ftrongly fenced (with palifades, ditch and parapet, having all the defences reverfed or facing inwards) for the secure confinement of all felonious offenders, and to be divided into three distinc compartments; two for the feparation of the two fexes; and a third for the mar ried perfons of either fex, that they may not be feparated from their spouses, or families, in cafe they fhould defire to attend them. And

Sixthly, One lot to be registered as glebe land; and to be referved for the chaplain of the hundred, whenever a clergyman

clergyman duly qualified shall be elected by the majority of the deciners or housebolders in the hundred; but no layman, during the vacancy, may receive any profit from the glebe, though he may officiate gratis, as far as a layman may lawfully be allowed to interfere in the facred office. And no chaplain shall be inducted to a legal charge or cure of fouls over more than one hundred families of deciners and their dependants, at one time, with due exception, however, to clergymen of epifcopal authority, in cafe God's bleffing on the fettlement should hereafter render the appointment of bishops neceffary.

Seventhly, One lot, half of which to be appropriated to the use of a parish elerk, who fhall alfo act as a head beadle in all affemblies of the hundred; and

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* The first chaplain muft neceffarily be excepted, until the fettlement is formed, and more clergymen procured.

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