Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1667-75. 79

ships Conditions of Plantation to all such as shall transport
themselves as aforesaid which is as followeth viz^t
Any Person of British or Irish discent who shall desire to
seat themselves in any of the Places last mentioned shall
take up there upon Credit any quantity of Lands or number of
Acres not exceeding three hundred to any one Person and
every such Grant for such Number of Acres shall be particular
and by it self and so as there be Reserved unto his 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
as aforesaid and also all Royal Mines and so as every such
Grant so to be taken up and Granted upon Credit as aforesaid
be made and Granted upon Condition to be Void in Case the

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Grantee and Grantees to whom the same shall so be made and
Granted his or their heirs or Assigns respectively do not or
shall not within four years to be accompted from the day of
the date of such Grant or Grants respectively bring in or import
into the said Province to reside or Continue there one person
of British or Irish discent for every fifty Acres so to be Granted
upon Credit as aforesaid and make sufficient proof of such of
such bringing in and importation of every such Person signed
and Sealed with the Seal of my Office by order from the
honble the Governor and Council this 23^d of December 1670
by me William Talbot Secretary

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William Talbot Esq^r Principal Secretary of Maryland to
William Stervens and James Weedon of the County of Somer-
set in the Province of Maryland Gent whereas the right Honble
Cecilius Absolute Lord and Proprietary of the Provinces of
Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltimore &c^a hath by
his Instructions under his hand and Seal Bearing date at
London the One and twentieth day of March 1669 required
and Enjoyned the Governor and Council of this Province to
use their utmost Power for the Seating and inhabiting of the
Seaboard Side on the Eastern Shore and on Deleware Bay
within the fortieth degree of Northerly Latitude and par-
ticularly at the Whore kill and for that his said Lordship hath
by his Commission under his hand and Greater Seal at Arms
Empowred me for the granting of such warrants as also for
the proving of all rights that shall become due to any Person
either by transporting himself into this Province of Maryland
to inhabit or by serving his time here in this Province either
by my self or my sufficient deputy or deputies and very well
knowing that it will be more Ease to the Inhabitants of the
County of Somerset if they can have such Conditional warrants
granted them in the said County as also their right either for
transportation or Service proved in the said County and not

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