"MARYLAND, ss.
" BALTIMORE.
" By the right honourable Charles, absolute lord and
proprietary of the provinces of Maryland and Avalon, lord baron
of Baltimore, &c.
" Wee being desirous to increase the number of honest
people within our province of Maryland, and willing to give
suitable encouragement to such to come and reside therein,
do offer the following terms:
" 1st. That any person having a family, who shall within
three years come and actually settle, with his or her family,
on any of the back lands on the northern or western
boundarys of our said province, not already taken up, between the
rivers Potomack and Susquehanna, where we are informed
there are several large bodies of fertile lands, fit for tillage,
which may be seen without any expence, two hundred acres
of the said lands, in fee simple, without paying any part of
the forty shillings sterling, for every hundred acres, payable
to us by the conditions of plantations, and without paying any
quit rents in three years after the first settlement, and then
paying four shillings sterling for every hundred of acres, to
us, or our heirs, for every year after the expiration of the
said three years.
" 2d. To allow to each single person, male or female, not
above the age of thirty, and not under fifteen, one hundred
acres of the said lands, upon the same terms as mentioned in
the preceding article.
" 3d. That we will concur in any reasonable method that
shall be proposed for the ease of such new comers, in the payment
