Wayne County NcArchives Court.....Lands, Establish Town On Andrew Bass 1786
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Source: Colonial Records
Written: 1786

Acts of the North Carolina General Assembly, 1786 - 1787
1786 
Volume 24, Pages 783 - 884

CHAPTER LXXVI.

An Act for Establishing a Town on the Lands of Andrew Bass.

Whereas it is represented to this General Assembly that a town on the lands of 
Andrew Bass, on the North side of Neuse River in Wayne county, where the court-
house and other public buildings now stand, would tend to the promotion of 
commerce, and the ease and convenience of the inhabitants of said county in 
attending courts and other public business; and the said Andrew Bass having 
signified his assent to a certificate under his hand, to have sixty acres of 
land laid off for a town and fifteen for commons: 

I. Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of the state of North-
Carolina, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same; That the 
Directors or Trustees hereafter appointed, or a majority of them, shall as 
soon as may be after the passing of this Act, cause seventy-five acres of the 
land aforesaid to be laid off in lots of half an acre each, with convenient 
streets, lanes and alleys; which lots so laid off according to the directions 
of this Act, are hereby constituted and erected a town and shall be called by 
the name of Wanesborough.

II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after 
the passing of this Act, William M'Kennie, Sen., Burwell Moring, William 
Whitfield, Joseph Green, William Whitfield, Jun., David Jernegan, Jun., 
Richard Bass, William M'Kennie, Jun., and William Fellows, be and they are 
hereby constituted Directors and Trustees for designing, building and carrying 
on the said town; and they shall stand seized of an indefeasible estate in fee 
simple of the said seventy-five acres of land to and for the uses, intents and 
purposes hereby expressed and declared; and they or a majority of them shall 
have full power and authority to meet as often as they shall think necessary, 
and cause a plan thereof to be made and therein to insert a mark or number to 
each lot; and as soon as the said town shall be laid off as aforesaid, they 
and each of them shall have power to take subscriptions for the said lots of 
such persons as are willing to subscribe for them, and when the said Directors 
shall have taken subscriptions for sixty lots or upwards, they shall appoint a 
day, and give public notice to the subscribers of the day and place appointed 
for the drawing of the said lots, which shall be done by ballot in a fair and 
open manner by the direction and in the presence of a majority of the said 
Directors at least; and such subscriber shall be entitled to the lot or lots 
which shall be drawn for him and correspond with the mark or number contained 
in the plan of said town; and the said Directors or a majority of them, shall 
make and execute deeds for granting and conveying the said sixty acres of land 
in half acre lots as aforesaid, to the subscribers, their heirs and assigns 
forever, and also to every other person or persons who shall purchase any 
other lot or lots in the said town, at the cost and charges of the said 
grantee to whom the said lot or lots shall be conveyed as aforesaid; and every 
person claiming any lot or lots by virtue of any such conveyance, shall and 
may hold and enjoy the same in fee simple.

III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That each 
respective subscriber for any lot or lots in the said town, shall within one 
month after it shall be ascertained to whom each of the said lots doth belong 
in manner herein before mentioned, pay and satisfy to the said Directors or 
any one of them, the sum of three pounds five shillings for each lot by him 
subscribed for; and in case of the neglect or refusal of any subscriber to pay 
the said sum, the said Directors shall and may commence and prosecute a suit 
or suits for the same, and therein shall recover judgment with costs of suit; 
and the said Directors shall as soon as they receive the said money, pay and 
satisfy unto the said Andrew Bass, his heirs or assigns, the sum of three 
pounds for each lot in full satisfaction for the said lands, and the remainder 
in their hands shall be applied towards defraying the expences of laying off 
and improving the said town, in such manner as a majority of the Directors 
shall think proper. And for continuing the succession of the said Directors 
until the said town shall be incorporated:

IV. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in case of the death, 
refusal to act or removal out of the county of any of the said Directors, the 
surviving Directors, or a majority of them, shall assemble and are hereby 
impowered from time to time by instrument of writing under their respective 
hands and seals to nominate some other person being a freeholder in said town, 
in the place of him so dying, refusing to Act or removing out of the county, 
which new Director so nominated and appointed, shall from thenceforth have the 
same powers and authorities in all things in the matters herein contained, as 
if he had been expressly named and appointed in and by this Act. Provided 
nevertheless, That the said Andrew Bass shall have to his own use a reserve of 
three lots of his own chusing, which choice shall be made previous to the day 
of balloting for the said lots.

V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Directors 
shall have full power and authority to pull down any chimney built of wood in 
the said town, or any piazza, or any other building of any kind whatsoever 
that may be made on any street, lane or alley in said town; or prevent stock 
of all kinds whatsoever from running at large, so as to interrupt any of the 
said streets, lanes or alleys, as a majority of them shall think proper.

VI. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the three acres of land 
formerly conveyed for the purpose of building a court-house, prison and 
stocks, be part of the aforesaid sixty acres, and under the same rules and 
restrictions, except one lot where the court-house now stands in said town, 
and one other where the Commissioners for building the court-house, prison and 
stocks may think necessary to build the prison and stocks on. (Passed Jan. 6, 
1787.)


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