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to be Granted shall be reserved and payable to us, And as it
is not Reasonable or just That any Lands Granted by us
should be held by any person who may Neglect to pay our
Rent reserved Therefore We think fit and accordingly do
Declare that the Terms of all Grants or Patents on future
Originall Common or Special Warrants shall be to be held on
Payment of the Rent Reserved, Or otherwise such Grant or
Patent to be Void, And also for the Incouragement of such
Who may be Able and Willing to Discover Lands or Houses
Escheatable We Declare and Order That any Discoverer
thereof shall be Intituled to one third part or Worth of the
Value which shall be Sett on such Lands and Houses to be
allowed in the Composition or Purchase Money which such
Discoverer ought to pay for the same And which Discoverer
our Will and Pleasure is shall have without Exception the
preference and preemption And Whereas We are Sensible
of the Mischiefs and Inconveniencies Arising not onely to our
Selfe but our Tenants by the Continueing Common Warrants
or Caveats in force for a very long time Therefore We hereby
Direct that all Patents for Lands on any Common Warrant
now Issued, or on Certificates now returned, shall be Obtained
before and not after the fourteenth of June which shall be in
the Year 1734. and within one year after the Determination of
any Caveat And that all Patents for Lands on any Common
Warrants to be Issued after the Date hereof shall be Obtained
within and not after two Years from the date of such Warrants
And no Caveat shall be renewed after the Expiration of Six
Months And our Will and Pleasure is that there shall be re-
served in all Patents on future Warrants One Tenth part of
all Mines (other than Royal Mines Totally Excepted by such
Grants) to be Delivered to our Receivers at the Pitts Mouth
or at the Place of Raising the same
Given at Annapolis this Twentyeth Day of June in the
Nineteenth Year of our Dominion &c. Annoq. Domini 1733
J. Ross, Cl. Cone.
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