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      of extent or otherwise whereby his Lordp may be Satisfied his Liber B.

      Said Rent arrear and be Secured touching the ensueing Rents

      as they Shall become due for all Such Manors Lands and Plan-

      tacons before menconed and the Inconveniency to the Common

      wealth avoyded, It is thereupon Ordered that for all Such

      Mannors Lands and Plantacons within this Province belonging

      to any Orphans which otherwise had beene before this time

      forfeited unto or grantable by his Said Lordp by vertue of the

      before menconed Act of Assembly of the 29th of Aprill 1650,

      and the rent arrear not yet paid, his Said Lordp his heirs and

      assignes Shall from henceforth have the Same in extent for

      thrice that number of years for which the Rent for Such Man-

      nors Lands and Plantacons hath been and is arrear and unpd

      respectively, and that his Lordp his heirs and assignes and his

      or their Attorney General or other Officer here authorised

      under him or them for that purpose for the time being Shall

      have power to Lease or Grant all or any Such Man nors Lands

      and Plantacons or any part thereof to any person or persons

      having liberty to take up Land here by vertue of his Lordps

      Condicons of Plantacon for Such number of years as aforesaid

      or for any lesser time, And this present Order to Stand in

      force to all intents and purposes therein menconed untill by p. 255

      Some Assembly to be held for this Province hereafter Some

      other Course be taken for his Lordps Satisfaction in the

      premisses.

        Upon motion made into this Court this day by his Lordps

      Attorney General on the behalf of his Lord p Shewing that the

      payment of his Lordps Rents hath been of late years very

      much neglected by divers of the Inhabitants here, and that

      Several proclamacons heretofore published touching the Same

      had been much Slighted and contemned, to the great Injury

      and dishonour both of his Lordp and the Governmt And that

      there was not any Set known Course nor certain known ffees

      or allowance to the Sherriff or his Deputy or any Bayliff or

      other Officer to be irnployed by his Lord p or his Attorney here

      upon distress or leavy for any Rents arrear wch he conceived to

      be the occasion of the neglect and contempt aforesd And that

      by Act of Assembly touching the Sheriff's ffees, It is left to the

      Court in Case of an extraordinary warrant or Comission to

      appoint the ffee, To the end therefore that his Lord might have

      Justice in the premisses touching the due payment of his Said

      Rents and arrears, the Said Attorney moved that the Court

      would grant Such power and appoint Such ffees and allow-

      ances to the Officers to be imployed therein as Should be fitt,

      It is therefore Ordered that for all or any Rents or arrearages

      now due or unpaid to his Lordp for any Lands within this