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Two: And We likewise find Records and Proceedings of the said
Court, to October Term, Seventeen Hundred and fforty Three: And
we find Deeds Recorded in the said office, to April Seventeen Hun-
dred and fforty ffour; and the said office generally in good Order.
Your Committee have likewise viewed the Commissary's office, and
find Wills Recorded in the said office, to November Seventeen Hun-
dred and fforty Three; and Accounts entered to July, Seventeen
Hundred and fforty Three; and Inventories to January, Seventeen
Hundred and fforty Three, and the Books and papers generally in
good. Your Committee have likewise viewed the Land-office and
find that several Certificates and Patents are Recorded to December,
Seventeen Hundred and fforty Two; and that many Certificates are
not Recorded, for want of Caution being paid, or other Requisites ;
that the Composition Money paid his Lordship for vacant unculti-
vated Lands, is five pounds Sterling per Hundred, and ffour Shillings
Sterling Yearly Rent, which in our neighbouring Colony of Vir-
ginia, immediately under his Majesty's Government, is no more than
Ten shillings Sterling for every Hundred Acres, and that given by
his Majesty into the Treasury of that Colony, for defraying the Con-
tingent Charges of Government, and the Yearly Rent has not ex-
ceeded Two Shillings Sterling per Hundred Acres, and that pay-
able at the Choice of the people there, in Tobacco at one penny per
pound; which Composition is taken in Maryland by the following
Instruction.
Copy of his Lordship's ffirst Instruction, dated at London, De-
cember 15, 1738.
We do Authorize and impower you, with the Advice and Consent
of Our Governor and Secretary for the time being, to grant any Sur-
plus or other Lands, our Manors or Reserves excepted, on such
Terms and Conditions as to you shall seem equitable and just; tho'
not under the Conditions of ffour shillings Reserved Rents, and ffive
Pounds Sterling Caution Money per Hundred Acres. You are
nevertheless to Demand, where you Judge the Case will admit of it,
such further Caution Money and Reserved Rent, as to you the Gov-
ernor and Secretary, for the time being, shall seem Just and ex-
pedient.
We also find that there is an Instruction of Seventeen Hundred
and Thirty Three, where the Composition is to be at fforty shillings
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sterling per Hundred Acres, and Ten Shillings Sterling Reserved
Rent per annum, of which the Register says no use has been made,
since the above Instruction of the ffifteenth of September, Seventeen
Hundred and Thirty Eight; and that the Books and papers are gen-
erally in good Order. All which is Humbly Submitted to the Con-
sideration of your Honourable House.
Signed per Order E. Dorsey Cl. Com.
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