" subscribing his name thereto, we do hereby declare " shall be effectual in Law and not before against us and our " heirs and shall bind us and our heirs as firmly as if " Livery and Seizin had been given and executed thereupon." First Council Proceedings¾folio 175. ¾ BY THE LIEUTENANT &c. OF MARYLAND.     " Whereas the Right Honorable the Lord Proprietary of " this Province is given to understand that divers " adventurers or planters have for a long time forborne neglected " or refused to take grants from his Lordship of all such " lands within this Province as have been or are due unto " them from time to time by virtue of several Conditions " of Plantation heretofore propounded by his Lordship " (contrary to the true intent and meaning of the said " Conditions) though some of the said lands have been due to " some of the said adventurors or planters by the space of " divers years past, which course can produce no good effects " to any such adventurors or planters or to his Lordship, " but must needs in process of time make such adventurors " rights and pretences to land there very doubtfull, begetting " nothing else but difficulties and confusions, and his " Lordship thereby also receives great prejudice in the " non-payments of such Rents for a long time which are due and " payable unto him from such adventurors or planters if they " had or did take Grants of all such lands due unto them in " convenient time as they ought to have done, And whereas " there may be divers that would but could not have any " Grants passed to them for any lands due unto them since " February 1644, about which time his Lordship's great " seal of this Province was violently taken from hence and " noe other here since till now that his Lordship hath sent " a new great seal hither, his Lordship therefore doth " declare that it is his will and pleasure that all such persons " now resident within this Province or within the Collony of " Virginia that pretend any right to any lands which have " been due unto him her or them within this Province by " vertue of any Conditions of Plantation or any other " Warrant under his Lordships hand and seal at any time " before the 17th day of March last past for which noe Grants " under his Lordship's great seal here are passed unto them, " shall some time before the first day of November next " ensueing the date hereof come and make their right appeare " unto me his Lordships Lieutenant of this Province or to " such Deputy as I shall ordaine and appoint in case of my " absence or death, for the government of this Province Source: John Kilty. Land Holder's Assistant and Land Office Guide. Baltimore: G. Dobbin & Murphy, 1808. MSA L 25529.