the 17th day of March last past, for which no grants under his Lordship's great seal here were passed unto them, should some time before the first day of November next come and make their right appear unto his Lordship's Lieutenant General of this Province, or to such Deputy as he shall ordain and appoint in case of his absence or death for the government of this Province under his Lordship, which they pretended to any such lands, and after survey thereof and before the said first day of November next demand grants for the same under his Lordship's new great seal of the said Province and thereupon they should have grants speedily passed to them according to justice as by the said Proclamation remaining upon record with the Secretary of this Province more at large amongst other things it doth and may appear, now for as much as I am credibly informed that divers of the inhabitants of this Province who have land due to them by virtue of former Conditions could not attend the survey thereof by the time limitted in the said Proclamation without great damage to be by them incurred by leaving their crops in the mean time which must necessarily have been very prejudicial both to themselves and the commonwealth upon consideration whereof I have thought fit and Do hereby declare that all and every such person and persons who have yet any Land due to them or any of them by virtue of any former Conditions or warrant in the said Proclamation mentioned and for which no grants under his Lordship's great seal are yet passed, shall have further time until the 25th day of March next after the date hereof to make their right appear and demand grants as by the said Proclamation is directed. Given at Saint Marys this 30th day of October Anno Dm. 1649."                                                     THOMAS GREENE."     COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS, 1st Book. fol. 248.   " By THE LIEUTENANT, &C. OF MARYLAND. PROCLAMATION.     " Whereas by two several Proclamations the first bearing date the 13th day of April Anno Domini 1649 and the other the 30th of October last and published within this Province for the reasons therein expressed it was on the behalf of the Right Honourable the Lord Proprietary of this Province and by his directions declared that it was his Lordship's will and pleasure that all such persons in the said Proclamation mentioned 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 any other warrant Source: John Kilty. Land Holder's Assistant and Land Office Guide. Baltimore: G. Dobbin & Murphy, 1808. MSA L 25529.