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paid him I do not know, & that Steward having afterwards
resigned the Agent appointed in his stead one M^r Rigby who
lives near the Mannour & as he seem'd to be a sensible &
was said to be an active Man I entertained hopes he would be
able to execute any Order it might be thought proper to give
him. Upon his representing to me the 2^d of April 1766 that
the Declarations & Offers of Maypother had possessed the
People residing on the Mannour with an Opinion that they
could not be compelled to pay Rent to your Ldp & that some
vigorous Steps were necessary to convince them to the
contrary I immediately wrote a Letter to Col^o Lloyd on the
Subject of which I now transmit your Ldp a Copy that you
may see it was not owing to any Neglect or non Attention in
me if every proper Step was not taken to recover & secure
the Rents of that Mannour which as I represented to M^r
Calvert the 26^th of May 1760 is so circumstanced that in the
Opinion of the Lawyers here neither those who claim under
the Patentee nor your Ldp could support an Action so as to
oust any Person at present in possession. It is upon this Con-
sideration that M^r Dulany who knows well how it is, M^r Jordan
& I have thought it for your Ldps Interest to offer all Persons
that are at present in possession whether they have or have
not Leases Patents for their respective Tenements upon the
same Condition on which some of them heretofore took
Leases viz 2O/ stg for every hundred Acres. M^r Hamersley
having ask't me whether the Running of the Dividing Line
between Pennsylvania & that part of Maryland which lies
West of Susquehannah would not afford a good Opportunity
of raising the Quit Rents on the Land to be there taken up
to Eight Shillings p^r 100 Acres & whether some of the best
Lands there may not be first laid out for your Ldp & reserved
as Mannours I thought it my Duty to advise with both M^r
Dulany & M^r Jordan thereon who were of Opinion with Me
that such Raising of the Quit Rent would put a Stop to all
Applications to the Land Office but in order that if any rich
Lands there remain vacant they may be laid out as Mannours,
I with their Advice ordered an Entry to be made in the Land
Office to this Effect, that no Surveys are to be made between
the Line run last year & the Line run about the year 1732
until farther Orders from your Ldp or your Lieutenant
Governor & agreeable to your Ldps Desire signified to Me
by M^r Hamersley I have also given an Instruction to the Land
Office that in all Patents to be made out on Warrants issued
after the Date of such Instruction a Clause of Re-Entry be
inserted to have Effect in case the Tenant shall not pay the
Quit Rent reserved within thirty Days after it shall become
due. M^r Hamersley having likewise informed me that at the

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