Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1657-1660. 337

such other submission as his Lo^pS said Lieu^t and Secretary or
either of them in the absence of the other out of the said Pro-
vince shall thinke fitt before any such Grant or Pattent of any
land in the Province be passed vnder his Lops Create Seale
there vnto them respectively as aforesaid. And Provided also
that before any such person or Persons shall haue any such
grant or pattent passed vnto them as aforesaid they do pay or
satisfy his Lo^ps Receauor Generall there for his Lordships vse
all such arreares of rent not before satisfyed or lawfully dis-
charged as are or shall be due vnto his Lo^p for the Land w^ch
shall be granted by any such Pattent from the time th^t by his
Ld^ps Condicons of Plantacon or other Warrant for the passeing
thereof, the said Pattent ought to haue bin passed, vntill the
time of the passeing the said Pattents respectively.
3. That whereas his Lo^p did heeretofore send a Warrant for
the Granting ten thousand acres of Land in the said Province
to Edward Eltonhead Esq vpon certaine termes & Condicons
of a certaine Number of persons to be transported by the said
Edward Eltonhead within a certaine time w^ch time was Likewise
by two declaracons afterwards of his Lordships enlarged as by
the Warrants and declaracons relacon being therevnto had may
more at large appeare. And whereas neither his Lo^p nor the
said Edward Eltonhead haue had as yett any Certaine Jn-
formacon of the passing a Grant in Maryland vnder his Lo^ps
former Create Seale of that Province of the said Land to the
said Edward Eltonhead according to the said Warrant and
declaracon & that itt is doubtfull whether the said Originall
Warrant & declaracons be not lost & imbezild in the late
troubles there therefore his Lo^p thought fitt to send heerewith
as he nowe doth trew Copies vnder his Lo^ps hand & lesser
scale at Armes of the said Warrant & declaracons And doth
heereby Authorize Will & require his Lieu^t & Keeper of his
Create Seale of the said Province for the time beeing that in
Case he find that there was not formerly a Grant or Pattent
Passed of the said Proporcon of land vnder the said former
Create Seale to the said Edward Eltonhead or that the said
Grant or Pattent & Record thereof be lost & can not be found

Liber H. H,

That then the said Lieu^t & Keeper of the said Create Seale do
cause a Grant to be passed vnder his Lo^ps Newe Create Seale
of the said Province to the said Edward Eltonhead & his Heires
of the said Proporcon of Land according to the true intent &
meaneing of the said Warrant & declaracons as aforesaid and
in case ne nna a Record or a rattent or orant passed neereto-

fore vnder his Lo^ps said former Great Seale there to the said
Edward Eltonhead according to the true intent & meaneing of
the said Warrant & Declaracons but that the Originall Pattent
or Grant is lost & cannot be found to be sent to the said

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