Which freeholders shall be charged by the said
sheriff impartially, and to the best of their skill and judgement to
view the lands round about the said place, and to locate and
circumscribe, by certain metes and bounds, one hundred acres thereof,
having regard therein principally to the benefit and convenience of
the said school, but respecting in some measure also the convenience
of the said proprietors, and to value and appraise the same in so
many several respective interests and estates therein. And after
such location and appraisement so made, the said sheriff shall
forthwith return the same under the hands and seals of the said
jurors, together with the writ, to the clerk's office of the said
county and the right and property of the said proprietors and tenants
in the said lands so circumscribed shall be immediately devested and
be transferred to the commonwealth for the use of the said grammar
school, in full and absolute dominion, any want of consent or
disability to consent in the said owners or tenants notwithstanding.
But it shall not be lawful for the said overseers so to situate the
said grammar school-house, nor to the said jurors so to locate the
said lands, as to include the mansion-house of the proprietor of the
lands, nor the offices, curtilage, or garden, thereunto immediately
belonging.
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