104 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1753-1761.

Lib. J. R.
& U. S.

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 s^d 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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Us & our Heirs both in Law and Equity in fee Simple in the
Lands so as af^d to be contained & described in and by the
Certificate to be returned as aforesaid.
Such Person Paying to the Proper officers of our Revenue
the Purchase Money for such Surplus Land at the same Rate
for every hundred acres as were formerly paid for the Pur-
chase of every hundred acres of the quantity Expressed in
such original Grant.
Reserving to us and our heirs in such Grant heretofore
to be issued the Annual Quit Rents for such Surplus land at
the same Rate for every hundred Acres thereof as is now
Payable by virtue of the original Grant for the quantity of
Land therein Expressed
And we do further Assent and Agree And do hereby
Authorize and direct That Our proper Officers of Our