the payment of forty shillings for every hundred acres,
caution money, in twelve months after the making the survey, and
the bond to be immediately returned into the land office.
" Under these directions great numbers of people have
become tenants to your lordship there, and if the same liberty
were allowed in the other counties on that shore, there is no
doubt but they would do so in them too.
" We humbly apprehend that it would be to your lordship's
advantage that they should, and therefore think it our duty
to lay the matter before your lordship, and beg that you would
be pleased to signify to us your pleasure thereon.
We are, in the greatest respect,
My Lord,
Your lordship's most
Faithful and most
Obedient serv'ts,
BENJA. TASKER.
BENJA. YOUNG.
Annapolis, June 23, 1746."
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" Give such directions, as to the contents of this letter, as
you think proper.
C. BALTIMORE.
" To Samuell Ogle, Esq.
Governor of Maryland."
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" Agreeable to the within order to me, you are hereby
desired to order the several surveyors of the Eastern Shore, to
lay out, for all persons that apply, lands upon the borders, and
to take bond for the payment of the caution money in twelve
months, and immediately transmitt the same into your office,
and also to order warrants of resurvey there, but suffer no
patents to issue thereon till the caution money is paid, which
must be in proportion to the original grant.
" And the same orders may be given to the surveyors of
Prince George's and Baltimore countys.
SAM: OGLE."
LIBER, P. T. No. 3, folio 272.
N. B. This order is presumed to be addressed to Messrs. Tasker and
Young, judges of the land office.
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November, 1753.
Extract from his lordship's instructions, dated at London, 30th
of March, 1753.
" 20. And you are to give directions to our judge of our
land office, that for the future, he is not to make out any
grant of land or lands, in any of our counties that are well
inhabited, to any one person or persons, exceeding the number
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