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Corporations empowered to take four roods of land in a city or town for sites of houses.
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2. It shall and may be lawful for the said corporations respectively to take, over and above the five hundred pounds a year and leases for years, which they are authorized to acquire as aforesaid, and such corporations respectively are hereby declared to be capable and qualified to take by grant or by devise any quantity of ground or land within their counties, cities, and towns respectively, not exceeding four roods, plantation measure, for the sites of houses to be built and accommodations to be provided for the reception of the helpless poor intended to be relieved under the nrovisions of this Act; . . .
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