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and his heirs; otherwife, the grant is to the next chofen member who will build on these terms.

One lot free for the first fenator, in like manner.

One lot free for the firft judge, provided Lyftra fhall become a town where courts are held, and the judge fhall build a house on the lot, in which cafe the grant is to him and his heirs, otherwise to the next judge who shall take it upon thofe terms.

One lot free to the first minifter of the first church, whatever the perfuafion may be, chofen by the free fuffrages of the freeholders, and his heirs. And a lot free to the faid firft minifter and his fucceffors.

One lot free to the first man who fhall erect a commodious hotel for the entertainment of travellers, undertake to keep it in good order and well-provided with refreshments, on reasonable terms, under the regulation of the police, according to circumstances, providing for the comfort of the traveller, and guarding strictly against impofition.

Two lots to be free lots for public granaries, to be used by merchants, who will build upon them gratis, till fuch time as the public occafions fhall call for their appropriated use.

The angles marked in the plate a, a, a, a, to be appropriated as market-places; and the strand of the creek to be commodiously edi fied with docks and landings, whenever the unappropriated public lots fhall bear a price equal to the undertaking, together with fuch improvements of the navigation in the rolling Fork, as fhall be found proper and expedient. And from thefe immunities, thofe parts of a lot formed by the Fork of Lyftra creek, shall belong to the liberties of the town, to be kept in a neat manner as a common meadow, upon which every inhabitant of the town, and freeholder of the township, shall have the privilege of grazing his horfe the first night of his coming into the town, or of his return from a journey, under the infpection of an overfeer, taking care to do no injury to fence, or hedge, or flirub. The remaining parts fhall alfo belong to the liberties of the town, and finally be laid out in fuch lots, with fuch restraints on the order of building as fhall preferve the beauty of the whole; and thefe lots, together with what remains unappropriated hereby, as hereinafter mentioned, in the year 1804, if not previously fold by order of the fubfcribers, to be then conveyed, with. what may remain, if any, of the township, to the fubfcribers, as their private property.

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Eighty-four lots in the township are appropriated for the common good and fole use of the town, to be fold at fuch times and on fuch pccafions as shall arife and be agreed on by the freeholders of the town, for building a church on the angle marked A, fo far as ten lots fhall go to that purpose; an edifice for a college on the angle marked B, so far as ten lots fhall go to that puprofe; an edifice for a town hall on the angle marked C, fo far as ten lots shall go to that purpose; and fome other public building, as a theatre or place of amufement, on the angle marked D, fo far as ten lots fhall go to that purpose. Thefe edifices to be handfome and uniform, to be built with wings fronting the curve line which forms the circus ; the church to be adorned with a steeple, and the other buildings with cupolas. And for doing other works of public utility, fuch as may arife in all times hereafter, till the whole ftock thus appropri ated is exhausted; but as the exigency arifes, fuch lots are to be fold for the purpose, indifcriminately, according as they shall bear a price adequate to the undertaking.

The township of Franklin contains one hundred and fixteen thous fand fix hundred and fifty-fix acres, and is most commodiously fituated between two capital branches of that fine river which gives naine to the State, the banks of which are better peopled than any other part of the State; on which lie the city of Lexington, the towns of Boonsborough, Danville, Grenville, Lees-town, &c. affording markets to the farmer for his produce. The river, about two hundred yards wide at the spot appropriated for a town already planned, to be called Franklinville, is navigable for large craft many miles above, and by the deep creeks into its interior parts for boats of confiderable burthen.

In this township the farmer will have no need of manuring his grounds for many years to come, nature having already replenished the foil with a stock not foon to be exhausted. A confiderable part of the land is of the prime quality, the second and third qualities are full ftrong enough for the various productions of the staples of life for man and beaft.

Coal of a fuperior quality abounds within the limits, and in spots near the waters, and convenient for navigation to other parts of the country. There are two falt fprings near the river, and a large quantity of copperas. The defigned town is planned for the point at the confluence of the north and middle branches into the main river. Mafon county, in which this township stands, will doubtlefs

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te foon divided into, at least, two more, and one will form a natural angle from this point, and probably be bounded by Red river, and Franklinville become the fhire town.

The streets, angles, circus and crefcents, in this town, to be free

to the public.

The streets, which, according to the plan, are one hundred feet wide, may be reduced to eighty feet, giving equally to the lots adjoining on each fide, which are, according to the plan, one hundred feet wide and two hundred feet deep, and the houses to be built regularly, according to the taste of the proprietors, on a line twentyfive feet diftant from the streets; and one moiety of each lot to be laid out in gardens, and feparated from each other, and from the viftas, by fimple palifades. This order of building not to be infringed.

Five hundred lots, to be drawn by fome one chofen to reprefent the town for that purpofe, to be vested in trustees for the use thereof, and fold at fuch times and on fuch occafions, as may arise and be agreed on by the fuffrages of the freeholders of the township and town; for building public edifices in the angles within the lines forming the circus and crefcents: the churches to be adorned with handfome fteeples, and the other public buildings with fuitable cupolas, and built with a fufficient degree of uniformity to give those structures a handsome appearance. Alfo for making common fewers, aqueducts, market-places, granaries, piers and landing-places, paving the ftreets, planting the viftas with trees corresponding to their names, embellishing the circus and crefcents, planting the public garden, lighting, watching and cleanfing the town, and doing all fuch matters as belong to the public good, according to the public agreement; but these lots not to be fold until they bear a sufficient price for defraying the undertaking, at fuch times when it may be judged expedient.

One hundred and fixteen lots gratis to the fubfcribers, one to each thousand acres.

One hundred lots gratis to the first hundred refidents.

Twenty-fix lots gratis, formed in the angles of the circus and crefcents, for the minifters, prefidents, and other officers connected with the public buildings.

One hundred lots, to be balloted for the purpose, and vested in trustees, to be granted by the fuffrages of the people, as compliments, accompanying other marks of public esteem, to fuch perfons VOL. II.

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