" 13th. There shall also be in all grants or pattents
hereafter to be granted on all future original comon warrants, or
on warrants for escheat lands, or on warrants for surplusage
lands, or on other special warrants, a clause, or provisoe,
inserted that the same grants or pattents shall become void, on
non-payment of the rent reserved.
" 14th. And to incourage the discovery of escheat lands
or houses, it is our will and pleasure, that one third part of
the value or worth which shall be sett on such lands or houses,
shall be allowed to any person who shall discover the same,
in the composition or purchase money which he ought to pay
for the same, and that such discoverer shall have, without
exception, the preference and preemption.
" 15th. You shall not permit any pattents to issue on any
comon warrants now issued, or certificates returned on such
warrants after the fourteenth of June, seventeen hundred and
thirty-four, next ensuing the date of a proclamation to be
published for this purpose.
" 16th. You shall pursue all former instructions, so far as
they are not repugnant to these.
" 17th. You shall, with advise of our chancellor, cause
proclamations to be published from time to time, of such part
of these our instructions as may be necessary.
" 18th. In all grants or patents hereafter to be granted,
on future warants, there shall be a clause reserveing one tenth
part of all mines, other than royal mines excepted, by such
receivers at the pitt's mouth, that is, when raised.
" 19th. That no caveat be permitted to be renewed, after
the expiration of six months.
" Given under our hand and seal, at Annapolis, this
fourteenth day of June, in the nineteenth year of our dominion,
Annoq. Domini, 1733.
By his lordship's comand,
WILLIAM JANSSEN.
LIBER, E. E. folio 306.
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" BALTIMORE.
****** Orders and instructions to our trusty and well
*SEAL* beloved Samuel Ogle, Esq. governor and commander
****** in chief of the province of Maryland.
1. You shall call our council, and make known to them
your commission and qualifie yourself accordingly.
2ndly. You shall as chancellor be aiding and assisting to
our agent, and judge of our land office, in all that relates to
their respective offices, and sign all proceedings relative
thereto.
3dly. You shall farm, if you think fit, for my service, my
quit rents of the whole province at the rate of twenty to twenty-five
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