86 Proceedings of the Council of Maryland, 1761-1769.

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to appeal under the usual Limitations and Restrictions, to Us
in Our Privy Council, We have also thought fit with the Ad-
vice of Our Privy Council as aforesaid, to give unto the Gov-
ernors and Councils of Our said three new Colonies upon the
Continent, full Power and Authority to Settle and Agree with
the Inhabitants of Our said New Colonies, or with any other
Persons who shall resort thereto, for such Lands, Tenements,
& Hereditaments, as are now, or hereafter shall be in Our
Power to dispose of, and them to grant to any such Person or
Persons, upon such Terms, and under such moderate Quit
Rents Services, and Acknowledgments as have been appointed
and Settled in Our other Colonies, and under such other Con-
ditions as shall appear to us to be necessary and Expedient for
the Advantage of the Grantees, and the Improvement and
Settlement of Our said Colonies, And Whereas we are de-
sirous, upon all Occasions, to testify Our Royal Sense and
Approbation of the Conduct or Bravery of the Officers and
Soldiers of Our Armies, and to reward the same we do hereby
command and impower Our Governors of Our said three New
Colonies, and all other Our Governors of Our Several Prov-
inces on the Continent of North America, to grant, without
fee or Reward, to .such Reduced Officers as have Served in
North America during the late War, and to such Private Sol-
diers as have been or shall be disbanded in America, and
are Actually residing there, and shall Personally apply for
the same, the following Quantities of Land, Subject at the
Expiration of Ten years to the same Quit-Rents as other
Lands are Subject to in the Province within which they are
granted, as also Subject to the same Conditions of Cultivation
and Improvement, viz^t To every Person having the Rank of a
Field Officer, five Thousand Acres. To every Captain Three
Thousand Acres. To every Subaltern or Staff Officer, Two
Thousand Acres. To every Non-Commission Officer, Two
hundred Acres. To every Private Man fifty Acres, We do
likewise authorize and require the Governors and Command-
ers in Chief of all Our said Colonies upon the Continent of
North America to grant the like Quantities of Land, and upon
the same Conditions to such Reduced Officers of Our Navy,
of like Rank, as Served on board Our Ships of War in North
America at the times of the Reduction of Louisbourg and
Quebec in the late War, and who shall Personally apply to
Our Respective Governors for such grants. And Whereas it
is just and Reasonable, and essential to Our Interest and the
Security of Our Colonies, that the Several Nations or Tribes
of Indians With whom We are connected, and who live under
Our Protection, should not be Molested or disturbed in the