458 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1661-1675.

Liber H. H.

person that shall tender vnto the sherriff of euery County
respectiuely at his owne howse any hydes, the resptiue sher-
riffes shall accept the said hydes in discharge of rents due to
the Lord Proprietary at these rates followeing, viz, dry hydes at
2^d p^l and rawe hydes at 1^d 1/2 p pound,
ordered that this ordinance be forthwith published by Procla-
mation.
Then it was ordered that Proclamation issue to giue notice
to the Province that they are to pay their rents this yeare to
the respectiue Sherriffes of euery County at the sherriffes owne
howse or at Such other place or places as the sherriffs shall
appoint for his one best conueniency within the respectiue
County: and that in case the rents be not paid accordinge to
the directions of the respectiue sherriffs, that distress shall
immediatly follow. And for as much as all rents are to bee
payde at s^t Marys according to the tenor of the seuerall pattents:
his Lordship doth heereby giue one whole yeares notice that if
any tyme after the 25 day of March next any rents or arriers
of Rents shall be behind hand or vnpayd at s^t Marys according

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to the tenor of their pattents that distress shall imediatly follow.
And that his Lordsp haue thought fitt heereby to giue notice
to the end that all persons should provide money or other
Commoditys more portable then Tobacco.
Then it was ordered that this oath should bee tendred vnto
euery person entreng Rights to land vppon Record.
You shall sweare that these persons heere by you named
weare transported into this Province heere to inhabitt, and that
noe land hath beene taken vp for them Legally within this
Province soe help you God.
Then was taken into consideration a declaration by the Lord
Proprietary of Maryland,
ordered that it bee published as it is heere written.

A declaration by the Lord
Proprietary of Maryland.

Whereas by our declaration of the 22^o of September 1658
directed to our then Lieutenant of Maryland wee did require
that in all Grants from vs of Mannors there for persons trans-
ported thither after the 20^o of June 1659 there should bee
reserued to vs and our Heirs a rent of two shillings yearely

for euery fifty Acres, and one yeares rent for a fine, and that

in all Grants of land for persons transported after the s^d 20^th
day of June there should bee reserued one years rent for a fine
to be paid vppon euery alienation of any such land, and to that
end a proviso should bee put into euery Graunt that noe tenant
should alien any part of the land Granted without entring it
one month after in the Provinciall or County Court there and