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unjust Probate made of such right as we have seen and been
informed wee doe therefore as well for the case Benefit and
Certainty of the Inhabitants of this our Province and other
persons inhabiting, trading or residing within the same, as also
for the perservation of our own just Right & property hereby
fully resolve determine and ordeine thaf no Rights shall here-
after be proved, admitted or allowed of for the taking up of
Land within our said Province as formerly by the Conditions
of Plantation of our late dear Father Cacilius &c: of noble
memory hath been accustomed But for the Encouragement
of any person or persons adventurer or Adventurers or others
inhabiting residing or trading within this Province wee do
resolve determine and ordein and hereby declare publish and
make known that any person or persons adventuring trading
inhabiting or residing within this our Province and willing to
take up any Land here shall for every fifty acres of Land he or
they shall design to take up as aforesaid pay or cause to be
payd unto us and our Heirs the just quantity of one hundred
pounds of Tobacco in Cask together with two shillings sterling
yearly Rent unless on the Sea board side or the whore kills
for every fifty Acres whereof any person or persons taking up
such Land shall only pay for the same as aforesaid the sum of
fifty pounds of tobacco in Cask together wth one shilling sterlg.
yearly Rent and so proportionally for any greater or lesser
quantity he or they first applying themselves to our secrys of
this our Province or other officer or Officers thereunto appointed
and giving sufficient caution for the same as to him or them
shall seem meet hereby willing and requiring our said secrys
or other officer or officers as aforesaid upon such caution or
security given to issue out warrants under the lesser seal of
this our Province for any quantity of Land to any person or
persons, suitor or suitors for the same in manner aforesaid and
to the end that this our will and Pleasure may be made known
we doe hereby strictly charge and command all and singular
the sheriffs of this our Province forthwith npnn Receipt hereof
to make Publique Proclamation hereof in the most Publique
and convenient places within their severall and respective
Countys Given at our Citty of St Maries under the Great
seal of this our said Province the fifteenth day of May in the
eight year of our Dominion &c Annoq Domini One hundred,
six hundred eighty and three.
A true Copy
Nicholas Sewall
John Darnall Secrys.
(Endorsed.)
Maryland. 15 May 1683.
Proclamation for letting
out the lands.
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