hath not been really and bona fide paid to us or our ancestors, may pretend surprize or ignorance, we have thought fit by this our proclamation to publish and declare, and we do hereby publish and declare that any person who is possessed of or holds any surplus lands by virtue or pretence of any grant, survey or otherwise, and for which the consideration hath not been paid as aforesaid and who shall neglect or refuse to apply to our land office in order to pay for such surplus and obtain our grant in due form for the same on or before the fourteenth day of June, Anno Dom. 1735, shall be proceeded against according to law, in order to vacate the grant or grants containing such surplus as fraudulently and unjustly obtained, or otherwise, as the case may require, and that no person who shall elapse the said time shall ever have or obtain any grant from us for such surplus land or any part thereof; and we hereby publish and declare that any person who shall discover any such surplus land shall not only have the preemption but also two years rent thereof as an encouragement for such discovery, and to the end our intentions herein may be generally known we strictly command and injoyn all our sheriffs not only to publish this our proclamation at the respective court houses and other the most publick places in their countys, but to affix copys thereof in all such places. Given at the city of Annapolis, this 14th day of June in the nineteenth year of our dominion, Annoq. Dom. 1733."             *********             * GREAT *             * SEAL.   *             *********   ¾         " MARYLAND, ss. " By his excellency Samuel Ogle, Esq. Governor and commander in chief in and over the province of Maryland, " A PROCLAMATION.     Whereas his lordship by his proclamation dated the 14th June, 1733, did think fit to direct and declare that any person who was possessed of or held any surplus lands by virtue or pretence of any grant, survey, or otherwise, and for which the consideration had not been paid to his lordship or to his ancestors, and who should neglect or refuse to apply to the land office in order to pay for such surplus and obtain his lordship's grant in due form for the same on or before 14th June, 1735, should be proceeded against according to law in order to vacate the grant or grants containing such surplus, as fraudulently and unjustly obtained, or otherwise, as the case should require, and that no person who should elapse the said time A a