436 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1660-1661.

Liber H. H.

his said Lo^ps Comand to me to see that parte of this Province
next adjoyneing to the County aforesaid peopled and for the
ease and benefitt of all such persons whoe shall transplant
themselues into this Province from Accomack afores^d I haue
nominated constituted and impowred and Doe by theis p^rsents
nominate Constitute and impower Coll Edmund Scarburgh
Randoll Reuell and John Elzey Gent or any two of them being
within this Province to grant warr^ts for land (During the tearme
of six moneths next ensueing the date hereof) vpon the Easterne
shoare of this Province in any parte belowe Choptanck Riuer
that is to say fifty acres for euery person transplanted vpon
such Condicons & tearmes as are Expressed in his Lo^ps con-
dicon of plantacon now remayning vpon Record regulated
according to his lo^ps Declaracon of the 22^th Sep^tr 1658, now
vpon Record alsoe Prouided that euery pson claymeing any
land by uertue of the Condicons aforesaid for or in respect of
the transportacon of any pson or psons into this Province doe
before the said Edmund Scarburgh Randall Reuell & John

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Elzey or any two of them and being within this Province take
the oathe of fidellity by the said Condicons of plantacon re-
quired which said oathe the said Coll Edmund Scarburgh
Randall Reuell and John Elzey or any two of them are hereby
impowred to administer to all or any the persons desirous to
transplant themselues as aforesaid before they shall haue any
warrants granted vnto them respectiuely And alsoe provided
that all such persons as shall haue any warr^ts granted be
accomptable to the Secretary for the tyme being for all such
fees as for the said Warr^ts and Entryes shall become due And
the said Edmund Scarburgh Randall Reuell and John Elzey
are hereby required to keepe a booke of all such Rights and
warr^ts as shall be by them or any of them granted distinctly
reciting the name and surname of euery person for or in respect
of whose transportacon they haue allowed any land And the
same at the End of the six moneths aforesaid to retourne into
the Secretarys office Signed with their hands Giuen at S^t Marys
vnder the lesser Seale of this Province this sixth day of Novem-
ber in the thirtyth yeare of his lo^ps dominion over the said Pro-
vince Annoq domini 1661
Signed Philip Calvert
C: Baltemore