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discent then residing or inhabiting and let the same to any
other Person for any term not exceeding three Lives or one
and twenty Years upon such terms and Conditions and under
such Rents and Services as his said Lordship and his heirs
shall think fit paying such Adventurers or planter and his heirs
and Assigns a tenth part of the Rent that shall be paid by any
such Lessee for the same over and above the quit Rent to his

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said Lordship and his heirs reserv'd upon the Originall Grant
which shall be first deducted and payed
5 Every man Servant of British or Irish discent that shall be
transported into the said Province at the Cost and Charges of
any other Person or Persons whatsoever of the same discent
shall at the Expiration of the Time of their Service so as it be
not under three years after their Arrival there be accompted a
planter within the said Province and shall have so much Land
Granted unto him his heirs and assigns there from his said
Lordship and his heirs and upon such terms and Conditions
as if such Servant had transported himself into the said province
at his own proper Cost and Charges
6 It is not intended that any Adventurer or Planter shall
have any Land Granted unto him or them for any Person for
or in respect of whom any Land in the s^d Province at the time
of such Grant hath been formerly Granted by his said Lordship
7 Every Adventurer or planter that shall have any Lands
granted unto him by Virtue of these Conditions before any
Grant be delivered to him and before it shall enter to his Benefit
shall take within the said Province the Oath of Fidelity to his
Lordship and his Heirs Lord and Proprietarys of the s^d Province
hereunder specified
8thly Every Adventurer or planter that shall have any Lands
by Virtue of these Conditions shall pay such fees to his Lord-
ships Officers within the said Province for their Respective
Grants of the said Land as are or have been usually paid to
the like Officers in Virginia for the like Grants in that Colony

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or as have been paid for the like in Maryland or as is or
shall be appointed by Act of a General Assembly there so as
they be not less then then the said fees usually paid in Virginia
or which have been paid for the like in Maryland
9 Every Adventurer or Planter shall have all such Lands
as shall become due unto him by virtue of the said Con-
ditions assigned unto him in such Parts or Places of the
said province as his Lordship or his heirs or his or their Lieu-
tenant or other chief Governor there together with his Ldshps
Secretary and Surveyor General there for the time being shall
from time to time appoint for the General Good of his Ldshps
Colony there and the reasonable Convenience and Commodity
of every such Adventurer or Planter