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Lib. J. R.
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Expressed in such Patents as Intended to have been thereby
Granted And Ruinous to many of Our Tenants in our said
Province
We nevertheless being willing and Desirous to treat those
of our said Tenants, who are Inclined to yield us Con-
tent in the Premises, with all possible Lenity, have Resolved
to Admitt a purchase of such Surplus Lands by those who
Claim under such Original Grants upon the most easy Terms
and upon the requisites hereaftermentioned being Comply'd
with to Grant and Confirm Unto such Persons respectively a
full absolute and Indefeazible Estate of Inheritance in fee
Simple against us and our heirs both in Law and Equity in
and to such Surplus Lands.
We do therefore by this our Proclamation publish and
Declare our Assent and Pleasure as follows, to wit, That
every Person within our said Province who hath or Claims
any Land as Comprized within the Metes & Descriptions of
his Grant more than the Quantity Expressed in such Grant
as intended by our said Ancestors to have been thereby
Granted and who shall within the Space of two years from
the date hereof Apply to the Judges of Our Land Office for
the time being for a Warrant to Resurvey the Original Tract
according to its Antient Metes and bounds and to Return
a Certificate of such Resurvey to Our said Land Office Rx-
pressing therein the true Quantity of all the Land Contained
within the Metes & Descriptions of the said Original Survey
shall have the same issued to him accordingly.
And that upon Return of such Certificate to Our said Office
(the forms of our sd Office being Complyed with) Grant
shall issue thereon to such Person, thereby Vesting him with
a full Absolute and Indefeazible Estate of Inheritance against
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