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hereby Publish and Declare that any person who is Possessed
of or holds any Surplus Lands by Virtue or pretence of any
Grant Survey or otherwise And for which the Consideration
hath not been paid as aforesaid And who shall Neglect or
Refuse to Apply to our Land Office in order to pay for such
Surplus and Obtain our Grant in due form for the same on or
before the fourteenth day of June Anno Dni 1735 shall be
Proceeded against According to Law in Order to Vacate the
Grant or Grants Containing such Surplus as Fraudulently and

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unjustly obtained or otherwise as the Case may require And
that no Person who shall Elapse the said Time shall ever have
or Obtain any Grant from us for such Surplus Land or any
part thereof And We hereby Publish and Declare that any
person who shall discover any such Surplus Land shall not
onely have the Preemption but also two Years Rent thereof as
an Encouragement for such Discovery And to the End our
Intentions herein may be Generally known We Strictly Com-
mand and Injoyn all Our Sheriffs not onely to Publish this
Our Proclamation at the Respective Court Houses and other
the most Publick Places in their Countys but to Affix Copys
thereof in all such places Given at the City of Annapolis this
14^th day of June in the Nineteenth Year of Our Dominion
Annoq Dom. 1733.
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17^th June 1733

Ordered by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary
that the General Assembly which stands prorogued to the first
Tuesday in July next be further prorogued to the first Day of
December next; Proclamations issued accordingly
Ordered by the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary
that the following Proclamation Issue

Maryland ss^t
By the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary
A Proclamation

Whereas We thought fit to Desist for some time past from
Granting any New Warrants out of Our Land Office, And as
We are now again Pleased to give our Tenants Liberty of
Intituling themselves to Lands in this our Province We here-
by Publish and Declare the further Terms Conditions and
Reservations upon which any Grant or Patent shall pass from
us for such Lands, To Witt That the Annual Rent of Ten
Shillings Sterling shall be Reserved and payable to us by

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