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sion to you for the Government of the said Province authorized
to Grant any Lands to any Adventurer or Planter of British or
Irish discent within our said Province Provided always the
Demesnes of no Manner within our said province which already
is or shall be hereafter set out and appointed for our own par-
ticular use nor any part of our Mannor of West S^t Marys lying
upon or near S^t Georges River in our said Province nor any
other Land within our said Province which hath been or shall
hereafter be Granted to any other Person or Persons from us
and is or shall be Confiscated or escheated again unto us or
our heirs shall be Alienated or Granted from us or our heirs
by Virtue hereof without our further and special warrant for
the same to be hereafter Obtain'd under the hand and seal at
Arms of us or our heirs any thing herein to the Contrary not-
withstanding Given at Bath under our hand and Greater Seal
at Arms the twentieth day of August Anno Domini 1648

Conditions Propounded by the Right Honble Cecilius
Lord Baron of Baltimore Lord & Proprietary of the
Province of Maryland &c^a to such Persons as shall go
to Plant in the Province afores^d which Conditions are
to Continue in force till other Conditions of plantation
for the said Province shall be published under his
Lordships or his heirs hand and seal at Arms within
the said Province.

What Person soever being of British or Irish discent (except
hereafter excepted) shall at his own or friends Charge Cause

Liber C. B.

to be transported into the Province of Maryl^d from any other
place himself or his Deputy with any Number of Persons of the
discent aforesaid and shall Observe the Conditions hereunder
mentioned there shall be Granted unto every such Adventurer
or planter for every twenty persons of the discent aforesaid
which he shall so in any one year at his own or his friends
charges Cause to be transported from any other place thither
a proportion of good land within the said Province Containing
in quantity two thousand Acres of English Measures to be
assigned and to lye all together in some one place within the
said province every which said two thousand acres shall be
erected into a manner and be Conveyed by Grant under the
Great Seal of the said Province to him his heirs and Assigns
Respectively for ever with such Royalties and Priviledges as
are most usually belonging unto Manners in Engl^d to be
held by some honour of his said Lordships or his heirs within
his said Province in Socage tenure Rendering and paying
Yearly for the first (seven years) after the said Grant unto his
said Lordship and his heirs for every such Mannor at the two

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