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power and Authority to permit any person or persons of British
or Irish discent who shall desire to seat themselves on any of
the said places last mentioned to take up upon Credit any
quantity of Lands or number of Acres there not Exceeding the
number of three hundred Acres by any one person so as every
grants of such Lands so to be made and Granted upon Credit
be particular and by itself and so as there be Reserved unto his
said Lordship and his heirs upon every such Grant the Yearly
Rent of one Shilling Sterling for every fifty Acres of Land so
to be Granted upon Credit as aforesaid & also all Royall
Mines & so as Every such Grant of Land so to be taken up
& granted upon Credit as af^d be made and Granted upon Con-
dition to be Void in case the Grantee or Grantees to whom
the same shall be so made and Granted his or their heirs or
Assigns respectively do not or shall not within four Years to
be Accounted from the day of the date of such Grant or Grants
respectively bring in or import into the said Province to reside
and Continue there one person of British or Irish discent for
every fifty Acres so to be Granted upon Credit as aforesaid
and make sufficient Legal Proof of such bringing in and im-
portation of every such Person
3^th That notwithstanding any Reservation made by his Lord-
ship or his Lordships Surveyor General for his Lordships use
of any Lands on either side of Mount Scarborough in the
County of Somerset within the said Province you shall forth-
with make good all Articles made by our dear Brother Philip
Calvert Esq^r on his Lordships behalf and Col^o Edmund Scar-
burgh upon the Laying out of the Bounds between his Lord-
ships said Province and the Province of Virginia in relation to
the Granting of any Lands in and by the said Articles Agreed

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to be Granted to any person or persons whatsoever at the time

of the making of the said Articles so as the said Grants be
made according to his Lordships Conditions of Plantation before
his Lordships Instructions above mentioned bearing date the
28^th day of Iuly 1669 and so as all Royal Mines be excepted in
every such Grant
4^thly Whereas his Lordship is informed that his seal for Ann
Arundel County hath been put and is now in the keeping of
M^r Tho^s Taylor his Lordships will and pleasure is that the said
Seal be forthwith taken from him and put into the hands of
M^r Sam^l Chew one of his Lordships Council and inhabitant of
Ann Arundell County and in these respects more properly
qualified for having the Custody of the same wherefore you
are not to fail in the speedy performance of his Lordships will
and pleasure herein Given under his Lordships hand and
lesser Seal at Arms this one & twentieth day of March 1669/70
C Baltimore