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Kilty's Land-Holder's Assistant, and Land-Office Guide
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34 LAND-HOLDER'S ASSISTANT.

for every twenty persons he shall so transport thither
in one year a proportion of good land within the said
province containing in quantity two-thousand acres of English
measure which said land shall be erected into a Mannor and
be conveyed by Grant under the seal of our said Province to
him or her and his or her heirs forever in socage tenure with
all such Royalties and Privileges as are usually belonging to
Mannors in England rendering and paying yearly unto his
Lordship and his heirs for every such Mannor a quit-rent of
forty shillings sterling per annum to be paid in the
commodities of the country and such other services as shall be
generally agreed for publick uses and the common good.

    Item¾What person soever of the discent aforesaid shall
at his or her own charge transport him or herself and
any lesser number of persons men or women than twenty of
the descent aforesaid and aged and provided as abovesaid he
or she shall have assigned to him or her and his or her heirs
and assigns forever for and in respect of him or herself and
every such person as aforesaid fifty acres of land within the
said Province to be holden of some Manor of his Lordship's
within the said Province in Free Soccage paying therefore
yearly a quit-rent of twelve pence sterling per annum to his
Lordship and his heirs for every fifty acres in the
commodities of the country as aforesaid.

    Item¾Any person of the discent aforesaid that shall at
his or her own charge transport thither any Children of the
discent aforesaid that is to say Boys under the age of
sixteen years and Girls under the age of fourteen years shall have
granted to them and their heirs for and in respect of every
such child to be transported as aforesaid twenty-five acres of
land within our said Province to be holden of some Mannor
of his Lordships within the said Province as aforesaid
under the yearly rent of sixpence sterling for every twenty-five
acres to be paid as aforesaid.

    Item¾Every person whatsoever that shall claim any
proportion of land in the said Province of Maryland by virtue
of the conditions aforesaid, shall pass a grant of the said land
so due to him, her or them as aforesaid, under the Seal of
the Province aforesaid within one year next after the said
Lands shall be due unto them and assigned and set forth in
some part of the said Province by his Lordship's Lieutenant
General there or in default thereof they shall by virtue of
these conditions lose their rights unto the said Lands forever.

    A particular of such arms and ammunition as are
intended and required by the Conditions abovesaid, to be provided
and carried into the said province of Maryland for every man
between the ages of sixteen and fifty years which shall be
transported thither.





 
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