mines) to such several persons as followeth until his Lordship shall send a new great seal thither (which he will shortly do) whereby the said lands may be granted under the same, viz.     " To his Lordships brother Philip Calvert Esq. his Secretary of the said Province of Maryland six thousand acres to be erected into one or more Manors and to be called by such name or names as his Lordship's said brother shall think fit.         To William Thompson one hundred acres         To —— Simpson two hundred acres         To every servant that hath and shall serve out his time             with any planter or adventuror there and hath             and shall approve himself faithful to his Lordship             fifty acres.     " Provided always that none of the lands before mentioned be assigned in any place formerly disposed of by his Lordship or his authority to any person or persons nor set out or reserved for his Lordship's own use, and provided that in the said assignments the usual respective yearly rent of one shilling sterling for every fifty acres of all the said lands, and so proportionably for any greater quantity of land to be paid to his Lordship and his heirs for the same be reserved and paid respectively or the value thereof in such commodities as his Lordship or his heirs or his or their Officer or Officers appointed from time to time to collect and receive the same shall accept in discharge thereof. And provided also that there be not above fifty pole of land laid out upon any water side of every fifty acres to be assigned as aforesaid and so proportionably for any greater quantity of land, and the residue to be laid out within the land next adjoining; which proportion, also, his Lordship wills and requires his said Lieutenant and Council to cause to be observed in surveying and setting forth all other lands claimed by any person or persons by virtue of any of his Lordship's Conditions of Plantation or any other Warrant or Order heretofore or which hereafter may be obtained from his Lordship notwithstanding particular mention be not made thereof in any such Warrant or Order; for all which this shall be his the said Lieutenant's Warrant."     COUNCIL, Book, H.H. folio 5. ¾ "C. BALTIMORE.     " Caecilius Absolute Lord and Proprietary of the Provinces of Maryland and Avalon Lord Baron of Baltimore &c. To our Right Trusty and well beloved our Lieutenant of our said Province of Maryland for the time being Greeting: Whereas by our Declaration heretofore made and published in our Source: John Kilty. Land Holder's Assistant and Land Office Guide. Baltimore: G. Dobbin & Murphy, 1808. MSA L 25529.