should ever have or obtain any grant from his lordship for such surplus land or part thereof. But his lordship, from a tender regard to his tennants, having taken into his consideration that many of them by inadvertinency or for some other excusable cause, may have elapsed the time prescribed by the said proclamation for taking up the said surplus lands and thereby have subjected themselves and family to the risque of being very much prejudiced; therefore his lordship hath condescended, and it is hereby accordingly declared, that any person having the right or title to any tract or tracts of land within whose bounds any surplusage is contained, shall and may have liberty to apply, from and after the date of this proclamation, for a warrant or warrants to resurvey such tract or tracts of land and include the surplus thereof, and obtain a patent for the same, provided such application be made in a reasonable time, and that no other person, either before the date of this proclamation or before such application to be made as aforesaid, shall have made a prior discovery of or application for such surplus lands, and provided the person or persons intended by this proclamation to be indulged in the permission of taking up their surplus lands as aforesaid, should not be thought, either from the circumstance of their case, or for other reasons, unworthy of his lordship's speciall favour in this particular. Given at Annapolis, this tenth day of September, in the twenty-first year of his lordship's dominion, Annoq. Domini, 1735."             *********             * THE      *             * GREAT *             * SEAL.   *             *********       LIBER F. F. folio 53. ¾ " 1742, April 22nd. " An instruction to our trusty and well beloved Samuel Ogle, Esq. governor of the province of Maryland. " C. BALTIMORE.     " Whereas by our proclamation dated at Annapolis, the 20th day of June in the 19th year of our dominion, Anno Domini 1733, we thought fit to publish and declare that the rent of four shillings sterling as usual for every hundred acres of surplusage land thereafter to be granted, should be reserved and payable.     " And whereas it has been represented to us great part of the best and richest land taken up, and that most of what remains is of less value, and lies in small quantities, and being willing to shew our good tenants all reasonable favour and