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full Value thereof in such Commodities as his said Lordship
and his heirs or his or their Officer or Officers Appointed by
him or them from time to time to Collect or Receive the same
shall accept in discharge thereof
4 It is not intended that any Adventurer or Planter shall
have any Lands Granted to him or them for any Person for or
in respect of whom any Land in the said Province at the time
of such Grant hath been formerly Granted by his said Lord-
ship
5 Every Adventurer or Planter of or above the Age of six-
teen Years to whom any Land shall be Granted by Virtue of
these Conditions and also every other Person and Persons of
or above the Age of Sixteen years for or in Respect of whom
any Lands shall be Granted by Virtue of the said Conditions
before any such Grant be Passed unto any such Adventuror or
Planter and before it shall inure ..... to his Benefit shall take
within the said Province the Oath of Fidelity to his said Lord-
ship and his heirs Lords and Proprietarys of the said Province
hereunder specified
6 Every Adventuror or Planter that shall have any Lands
by Virtue of these Conditions shall pay such fees to his
Ldshps Officers within the said Province for their Respective
Grant of the said Lands as are or have been usually paid to
the like Officers in Virginia for the like Grants in that Colony
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 the said fees usually paid in Virginia or which
have been paid for the like in Maryland

Liber C. B.

7 Every Adventuror or Planter shall have all such Lands as
shall become due to him by Virtue of these Conditions assigned
to him in such Parts or Places of the said Province as his Lord-
ship or his heirs or his or their Lieutenant or other chief Gov-
ernor there together with his Lordships Secretary and Sur-
veyor General there for the time being shall from time to time
appoint for the General Good of his Lordships Colony there
and the Reasonable Convenience and Commodity of every
such Adventuror and Planter
8 His Lordship doth except out of these Conditions of Plan-
tation all Corporations Societies Fraternities Guilds and Bodys
Politick as well Spirutual and Temporal and every of them and
doth declare that he doth not intend that they or any of them
shall be Capable of or have any Benefit by Virtue of these
Conditions to inherit Possess or Enjoy any Land within the
said Province either in their own name or right or in the name
or names or right of any other Person or Persons whatsoever to
the use Interest or Benefit of or in trust for any such Corporation
Guild Bodies Politick Societies or Fraternities or any of them

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