these Conditions shall demand of his Lordship or his heirs or of his or their Lieutenant or chief Governor of the said province for the time being a grant under the great seal of the said Province for the lands so due to him within one year next after the said lands shall be due unto him and if any adventuror or planter shall neglect to make the said demand within the time abovementioned or that he or his heirs or assigns shall refuse at any time to accept of a grant from his Lordship or his heirs under the great seal of the said Province of such lands as shall be from time to time due to any such adventuror or planter by virtue of these Conditions when it shall be offered unto him or them by his said Lordship or his heirs or by his or their Lieutenant or chief Governor there or by his or their Secretary within the said Province for the time being or shall not perform all things which are required by these Conditions to be performed by every such adventuror or planter then every such adventuror or planter shall for ever after loose their respective rights and pretences to the said land     Because all secrett trusts are usually intended to deceive either the Government and State where they are made or some other persons and by experience are found to occasion many suits and dissentions therefore no adventuror or planter shall take any grant from his Lordship under the great seal of the said province of any lands there by virtue of these Conditions in trust for any other person or persons or to any other use or uses then what shall be expressed in the said several and respective grants upon pain of forfeiture of the said lands unto his Lordship and his heirs when any such secrett trust or uses shall be truly discovered.         Given at London under his Lordships hand and greater           seal at arms the second day of July 1649.     COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS, First Book fol. 220. ¾ " BY THE LIEUTENANT, &c. OF MARYLAND. PROCLAMATION.     " Whereas by Proclamation dated the thirteenth day of April last, and published within this Province, for the reasons therein expressed it was on the behalf of the Right Honorable the Lord Proprietary of this province and by his direction declared that it was his Lordship's will and pleasure that all such persons then resident within this province or the Colony of Virginia, that pretended any right to any lands which have been due unto them or any of them within this Province by virtue of any Conditions of Plantation or other Warrant under his Lordship's hand and seal at any time before Source: John Kilty. Land Holder's Assistant and Land Office Guide. Baltimore: G. Dobbin & Murphy, 1808. MSA L 25529.