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aforesaid we do for us and Our heirs hereby fully ratify and
Confirm to every of the said Copyholders respectively and do
hereby declare that they shall be as Valid in Law to every of
them respectively against us and Our Heirs as if we Ourself
had immediately Granted the same And as if every One of
the said Copyhold Estates respectively had been passed unto
every respective Copyholder by a Grant under Our Great Seal

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of the said Province any former Commission Instruction or
Declaration of ours to the Contrary in any wise notwithstand-
ing and whereas by the third Article of Our last Conditions of
Plantation for the said Province dated the second day of July
One thousand Six hundred and forty nine there is allowed One
hundred Acres to every Adventurer or Planter for every per-
son of British or Irish descent transported thither as by the
said Conditions unto which relation being had may more at
large appear We understand that it may in divers respects be
prejudicial to the General Good of that Colony in case so
Great allowance of Land should be long Continued to all that
shall hereafter Come to Plant there because by that means the
People will be too remotely scituated from one another and the
whole Province perhaps in a short time be taken up by a few
People leaving little or no Conveniency for others to Come and
add Strength and Comfort to them and therefore according to
the advice of you our said Lieutenant we have thought fit
hereby to declare that instead of One hundred Acres expressd
as aforesaid in the said third Article of our said Conditions
there shall be only fifty Acres of Land within our said Pro-
vince allowed to any Adventurer or Planter for or in Respect
of any person of British or other decent which shall be trans-
ported thether from and After the twentieth day of June
One thousand Six hundred fifty and two which Our will
and Pleasure is shall be Granted to every Adventurer and
Planter respectively upon such terms and Conditions and
for such proportionable Rents to be paid to us and Our heirs
as are expressed in our said last Conditions of Plantation which
in all other things we will shall Stand in force till we or our heirs
shall declare Our Pleasure to the Contrary with such Alteration

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of the Oath of Fidelity therein expressed as we have formerly
agreed unto by our declaration dated the sixth of August in
the nineteenth year of Our Dominion over the said Province
and in the year of Our Lord One thousand six hundred
and Fifty and Transmitted thether the last Year and we will
and require You our said Lieutenant to pursue our directions
herein accordingly (our said former Conditions of Plantation
or any former Commission warrant or Instruction to the Con-
trary notwithstanding and for the better publication and re-
memberance of the bounds between Virginia and Maryland and

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